William E Emmert

Name: Army 1st Lt. William E. Emmert

Age: 36

From: Fayetteville, Tenn.

Assigned to the 269th Military Police Company, 117th Military Police Battalion, Tennessee National Guard, Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Incident: Army 1st Lt. William E. Emmert died Feb. 24 in Mosul, Iraq, of wounds sustained when he was shot while participating in a local Iraqi Police function.

Died: February 24, 2009

Soldier shot during Iraqi police function

The Associated Press

A Tennessee National Guard soldier has died after he was shot during a police inspection in Iraq, the Department of Defense reported.

1st Lt. William E. Emmert, 36, of Fayetteville, Tenn., died Tuesday in Mosul, according to a news release. Emmert was a platoon leader assigned to the 269th Military Police Company, 117th Military Police Battalion in Murfreesboro.

In civilian life, he was a special agent with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

Two Iraqi policemen opened fire Tuesday during a U.S. military inspection visit in northern Iraq, killing Emmert and an interpreter in an attack that deepened worries of possible infiltration of security forces...