
IRVINE, Calif. — A Marine from Orange County who was only a week from his 20th birthday has died in a non-combat incident in Iraq.
Pfc. Sean Horn died Saturday while serving at Camp Taqaddum, Iraq. The military said he died in a “non-hostile incident” but did not provide details. He would have turned 20 on Sunday.
Horn’s sister Melissa, 21, told the Orange County Register that he was found dead on Saturday from a single shot in the head in a bunker at the camp, about 150 miles northwest of Baghdad.
“It’s the worst thing in the world that could possibly happen to a family,” she said Tuesday.
She said Horn did not return for a 4 p.m. roll call at the...