AGE:  30

HOMETOWN:  Harrison County, Mississippi

UNIT:  1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division

DUTY STATION:  Camp Pendleton, California

DIED:  March 21, 2003

LOCATION OF INCIDENT:  Southern Iraq

CAUSE:  shot in the abdomen in an assault on a pumping station in Iraq, the first American casualty in Operation Iraqi Freedom

BURIED:  with full military honors at Crown Hill Cemetery

FUNERAL HOME:  Miratsky-Easton Funeral Home

MEMORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS:  First National Bank and Trust, Powell