
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A 26-year-old soldier who was due back home in less than a month for the birth of his son has been killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb that exploded beneath the Humvee he was driving, his mother said.
Relatives of William Davis, of Grand Rapids, said they were notified March 17 that he had died late last week. They did not know where in Iraq he was killed.
“Billy was coming home. His wife was going to have induced labor. He was going to see the baby before he had to go back,” a tearful June Davis told The Grand Rapids Press on March 19.
William Davis’ father served in the military in the Vietnam War, and a grandfather...