
CINCINNATI — A U.S. soldier who was a champion high school sprinter while growing up in southwest Ohio has been killed in Iraq, his family said Thursday.
Army Staff Sgt. Charles Kiser, 37, was killed outside Mosul, his family said.
“We received word this afternoon,” said Kiser’s brother-in-law, Bill Grannen.
The Defense Department said a U.S. soldier was killed Thursday by a car bomb in Mosul but did not release the soldier’s name. Two other U.S. soldiers were killed and seven wounded Thursday when their patrol was ambushed in Baqubah.
Kiser was with the 330th Military Police Division, a reserve unit based in Sheboygan, Wis., and had been in Iraq...