
BOSTON — A Fort Drum soldier who was shot by a sniper in Iraq while searching for missing U.S. soldiers died May 31 of his wounds, his sister said.
Pfc. Matthew Bean, 22, was removed from life support at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., and died early May 31.
Bean, a member of the Army’s 10th Mountain Division, was shot in the head May 19 while searching for a fellow Massachusetts soldier and two others.
Spc. Alex R. Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, and two comrades have been missing since a May 12 ambush about 20 miles outside Baghdad. The body of one of the three, Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr., 20, of Torrance, Calif., was found May...