
ST. LOUIS — A 54-year-old Army soldier who grew up in St. Louis was killed by mortar fire in Baghdad, the Defense Department said.
Family members of Col. Stephen Scott said military officials notified them Sunday night that he had been killed earlier that day in the city’s Green Zone.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Tuesday that Scott was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad overseeing the transition of security forces to the Iraqi government. He had been working at the Pentagon in recent years after growing up in the St. Louis area.
The newspaper reported that Scott was exercising in the protected Green Zone when the building was struck by...