04/26/06 AP: Corporal who grew up in Alton area killed in Iraq

04/26/06 AP: Corporal who grew up in Alton area killed in Iraq
A 21-year-old soldier who grew up near downstate's Alton community has died in Iraq. Family members say Army Corporal Shawn Thomas Lasswell Junior died in a roadside bombing outside of Baghdad on Sunday.


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