Local Marine Killed in Action

By Mark Heaslet
|  Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009  |  Updated 3:15 PM PST
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Local Marine Killed in Action

Baker was from Ohio but based at Camp Pendleton in Oceanside.

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Another locally-based Marine has been killed in Afghanistan.

Lance Corporal David Baker died Tuesday when a roadside bomb exploded in the Helmand province in southern Afghanistan.

Baker, 22, was on a security patrol when he was hit. He was from Painesville, Ohio, and was assigned to the First Marine Division based at Camp Pendleton.

Posted Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009 - 3:00 PM PST
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