
A Naugatuck, Conn., man serving in the Army reserves has been killed in Iraq, the military said Sept. 23.
Sgt. David Travis Friedrich was killed Sept. 20, said Eric Hurwitz, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Reserve in Ayer, Mass.
Friedrich and another soldier died when mortars hit a U.S. base near the Abu Ghraib prison on the western outskirts of Baghdad about 10 p.m. Thirteen other soldiers were injured in the attack. No prisoners were injured.
“We are deeply saddened by his death … and we appreciate the thoughts and prayers of our fellow Americans,” Friedrich’s parents, David and Beth Friedrich, said in a statement released through Army officials at...