Ohio soldier killed in raid in Afghanistan

Associated Press

CLEVELAND

A soldier from Ohio was among two Army Rangers killed in a raid in Afghanistan who may have died as the result of friendly fire, the U.S military said Friday.

The Department of Defense statement said Sgt. Cameron Thomas, 23, of Kettering, in southwest Ohio, was killed in the raid Wednesday on an Islamic State compound in eastern Afghanistan. The military is investigating to see if he and the other soldier who died were accidentally killed by ground fire from Afghan commandos or other American forces.

Thomas’ younger sister remembered him Friday as someone who was committed to becoming an Army Ranger.

“He always had a sense of purpose about him,” Arran Thomas-Dunlavey, of Jacksonville, N.C., told The Associated Press.