Army Capt. Anthony R. Garcia, 48, of Fort Worth, Texas; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky.; killed Feb. 17 by a gun shot in Tikrit, Iraq.
"Fort Worth Officer Killed in Iraq"
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — An Army officer from Fort Worth, Texas, died from a gunshot wound in Iraq, the Department of Defense said Monday.
Capt. Anthony R. Garcia, 48, died in Tikrit on Feb. 17. The shooting is under investigation because it happened on a military base, said Cathy Gramling, a spokeswoman for Fort Campbell, where Garcia was assigned. No further details were released.
"He loved his kids and doing stuff together," Garcia's wife, Doris, told The Leaf-Chronicle of Clarksville, Tenn. "We'll just miss him so much."
Garcia was a physician assistant assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st Aviation Brigade. He joined the Army in August 1989 and was assigned to Fort Campbell in June 2001.
Besides his wife, Garcia is survived by a daughter, Kelly, and a son, Garrick, of Clarksville; and his parents, Monico and Josephine Garcia, of Hudson Oaks, Texas.
Monico Garcia described his son as a "happy person."
"He liked to kid people a lot and do fun things," Garcia told The Leaf-Chronicle from his home in Texas.
Garcia is at least the sixth Texan to die in Iraq this year and at least the 197th since the war began in March 2003.
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