
BOISE, Idaho — A soldier from Boise has been killed in Iraq, his mother told the Idaho Statesman.
John Borbonus, 19, was a 2005 graduate from Boise High School and would have turned 20 next month. His mother, Maggie Borbonus, said he was killed April 12.
Information on his Army unit was not immediately available.
His death marks the third wartime death from Idaho in a week and the 25th since the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003.
Messages left with his family April 13 by The Associated Press were not immediately returned.
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