
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — A former award-winning ROTC graduate at Austin Peay State University was killed Oct. 6 in Iraq when his convoy was hit by a homemade explosive, the Department of Defense said.
Second Lt. Richard Torres, 25, was assigned to 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division from Fort Drum in northern New York. He was originally from New Jersey.
Torres had been a sergeant with the 326th Engineer Battalion at Fort Campbell, Ky., before he enrolled in Austin Peay’s ROTC program in Clarksville.
He graduated in May 2002. Torres is the first Austin Peay ROTC graduate killed in combat since the school began the program in...