
BATON ROUGE, La. — Family and military members gathered on the runway at the Baton Rouge airport to meet the casket of an East Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s deputy and National Guard soldier killed in Iraq.
Law enforcement officers formed a processional to escort the hearse carrying Sgt. David Joseph Murray, 23, who died June 9 when a bomb exploded under his armored personnel carrier in Baghdad. Murray was a member of B Company, 1088th Engineering Battalion, 256th Brigade Combat Team.
Murray was also an East Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s deputy and worked part time as a sergeant for the Norwood Police Department. Norwood Assistant Police Chief Ray Chamberlian waited as the...