
RALEIGH, N.C. — A Johnston County man was one of four Camp Lejeune Marines killed in two roadside bomb attacks in western Iraq, his mother said.
Lance Cpl. David Parr, 22, died after an explosive detonated under his Humvee in the city of Hit on Sunday, said Diana Pasquinelli.
Parr was one of three Marines killed when an unusually large improvised bomb exploded under their armored Humvee about 1:30 a.m. Monday and destroyed it, according to a Washington Post reporter embedded with the Marines in Hit. Two Marines died quickly, and another died later of his wounds, said the story in Tuesday’s editions of the newspaper. Two more were injured.
A fourth Camp Lejeune...