
JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi Army National Guard soldier from Alabama has died of injuries he received when a roadside bomb ripped through his vehicle in Iraq.
Four others were injured in the April 19 blast.
Staff Sgt. Tommy S. Little of Aliceville, Ala., died Monday, the Guard said. Little was assigned to the Guard’s Battery A, 2nd Battalion, 114th Field Artillery in Columbus.
Little was being treated at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, when he died.
“This is another tragic loss for the Mississippi National Guard,” Maj. Gen. Harold Cross, the state’s adjutant general, said in a Tuesday statement. “I know members of the Mississippi National Guard will mourn the loss of this brave soldier.”
Gov. Haley Barbour said his family was “deeply saddened by another death of one of our Guardsmen serving in Iraq. Our thoughts and...