
MINE HILL, N.J. — Flags were ordered flown at half staff in this Morris County town to honor a New Jersey Army National Guard soldier killed in Iraq over the weekend.
Cheryl Doltz confirmed to The Associated Press Sunday night that her son, Spc. Ryan E. Doltz, 26, was one of two New Jersey Guard members killed Saturday.
Doltz’s parents declined further comment.
“The community is just devastated,” former fire chief Rich Conroy, who has known the family for years, told the Daily Record of Parsippany.
Doltz was a 1996 graduate of Dover High School and a 2002 graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. He was deployed to Iraq in April, the Daily Record...