
BEACH CITY, Ohio — A 22-year-old soldier from northeast Ohio was killed in Iraq in a roadside bombing of his vehicle, his father said.
Zachary Grass was killed June 16, his father, Frank Grass, said June 17. The Department of Defense confirmed the death June 18.
“We had gone to a car show [June 16],” Frank Grass said. “When we returned home, that’s when the military was here.”
The family lives near this town 15 miles southwest of Canton.
Zachary Grass was a 2003 graduate of Fairless High School, where he played guard on the basketball team and pitched and played third base in baseball.
“He was a kid always willing to do whatever it took to help...