(CNS) – Dozens of people along with police cars and fire engines flashing their lights waited at the Palm Desert Sheriff’s Station Thursday to pay their respects to U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Hunter Lopez of Indio, one of 13 service members killed in last month’s bombing in Afghanistan. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department began a […]
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(CNS) – The remains of one of two Riverside County servicemen killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan will be returned home Friday, with plans for a “Fallen Hero Procession” to salute him, a day ahead of his funeral in Riverside. U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Kareem Grant Nikoui, 20, of Norco died Aug. 26 in […]
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(CNS) – U.S. Marine Cpl. Hunter Lopez of Indio, one of 13 service members killed in last month’s bombing in Afghanistan, will be memorialized over the course of three days starting Thursday. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department will hold a three-day long remembrance ceremony for Lopez, who died at the age of 22, starting with […]
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United States Marine, Corporal Hunter Lopez, the son of Riverside County Sheriff’s Captain Herman Lopez and Deputy Alicia Lopez, will finally be flown home and reunited with his family to be honored and laid to rest. Hunter Lopez was killed in action on August 26, 2021 while serving as a member of the Unites States […]
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A 22-year-old Coachella Valley marine was among the 13 U.S. service members killed Thursday in the Kabul airport attack. United States Marine Corps Corporal Hunter Lopez, a Coachella Valley resident, died during a suicide bombing at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan during the U.S. lead evacuation effort. Hunter was assigned to the […]
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(CNN) — US service members and Afghans have been killed in two suicide bombing attacks outside Kabul’s airport, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday. An official with Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health told CNN more than 60 people were dead and 140 wounded. The deadly blasts came as the United States and other Western countries raced to complete […]
