Richard A. Perez Jr.
Profile
Age: 19
From: Las Vegas
Assigned to the 6th Motor Transport Battalion, 4th Force Service Support Group, Marine Forces Reserve, Las Vegas
Incident: Marine Lance Cpl. Richard A. Perez Jr. was killed Feb. 10 in a non-hostile vehicle incident in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: February 10, 2005
Las Vegas Marine killed in Iraq
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — Lance Cpl. Richard Perez Jr. had just 10 more days left in Iraq.
The 19-year-old Marine reservist already had shipped his personal belongings back to Las Vegas, and he told his family on Super Bowl Sunday he couldn’t wait to end his six-month stint overseas.
But the young Marine didn’t make it. He was killed last week when a truck accidentally rolled over him near Ramadi, his father said Saturday.
Perez had been in Iraq since mid-August, driving supply trucks. He enlisted with the Marine reserves shortly after he graduated from Coronado High School in 2003.
When Perez returned home, he had hoped to play baseball for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Perez played baseball at Foothill High School after the family moved to Las Vegas from Denver in 2000. He transferred to the newly opened Coronado in 2001.
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