
SAN RAMON, Calif. — When Kyle Crowley decided to join the Marines and head off to Iraq, his father feared for his son’s safety.
Those fears proved prescient when the 18-year old from San Ramon was killed April 6 in a gun battle in Iraq.
“I’m just really proud of Kyle and his achievements,” his father, Mark Crowley, told the San Francisco Chronicle. “I’m really saddened by the loss of his young life and that his blood was spilled on foreign soil.”
Crowley is one of three San Francisco Bay area residents killed in Iraq this week. Marine Lance Cpl. Travis J. Layfield, 19, of Fremont, was also killed the same day, and Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, 24, of Vacaville, died earlier that...