Daniel K. Methvin
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Age: 22
From: Belton, Texas
Assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Incident: Army Sgt. Daniel K. Methvin was killed July 26 as a result of a grenade being thrown from a window of an Iraqi civilian hospital he was helping guard in Baqubah, Iraq.
Died: July 26, 2003
Belton soldier killed in Iraq
Associated Press
FORT HOOD, Texas — A Belton, Texas, resident was one of three Fort Hood soldiers killed July 26 when a grenade was thrown from the window of an Iraqi hospital they were guarding, the Department of Defense said Monday.
Sgt. Daniel K. Methvin, 22, was killed in the attack near Baghdad. He is a member of the Army’s Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, 4th Infantry Division.
Methvin’s family declined to speak with The Associated Press.
Also killed in the attack were Pfc. Wilfredo Perez Jr., 24, of Norwalk, Conn., and Spc. Jonathan Paul Barnes, 21, of Anderson, Mo.
Lt. Col. Dan Baggio, chief of public affairs at Fort Hood, said the three deaths bring the total casualties from Fort Hood to 11.
“Everybody here is focused,” Baggio said of the soldiers at Fort Hood. “It is sad when any of our soldiers is killed and we extend...