For the second time in as many weeks, a Northeast Ohio Marine has been killed in the troubled Helmand province of Afghanistan.
31-year-old Lance Cpl. David R. Hall of Elyria died Monday.
His parents are Lulu and Delmar Hall of Lorain, and they learned Monday of his death.
Hall was was a rifleman assigned to assigned to the Marine Expeditionary Force out of Camp Lejeune, N.C. He joined the Marine Corps in November 2006 and was promoted to lance corporal on New Year's Day, 2008. He served in Iraq from November 2007 through May 2008, and was deployed to Afghanistan in May.
The military is not saying how he died, but his sister, Lora, told the Plain Dealer he was killed by a roadside bomb. She said his duties included checking ahead of his unit for bombs.
Hall graduated from Southview High School in 1997.
On Aug. 18th, Marine Gunnery Sgt. Adam Benjamin was killed under similar circumstances in the province. He was 34 and a 1993 graduate of Garfield Heights High School.
