N.C. National Guard Soldier Dies, 14 Wounded in Iraq attack

[Gillian_Angela]

Posted: Today at 8:00 a.m.
Updated: Today at 9:01 a.m.

RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina National Guard soldier has died from wounds sustained during an attack that wounded 14 other soldiers assigned to his unit in Iraq.

The Department of Defense said Tuesday that Staff Sgt. Emanuel Pickett, 34, of Teachey, died Sunday in Baghdad.

Pickett was assigned to the 1132nd Military Police Company in Rocky Mount and in civilian life was a police officer in Wallace.

National Guard spokesman Maj. Matt Handley said Pickett and the other soldiers were hit during mortar or rocket attacks on their base.

Handley said the wounded included nine soldiers from the North Carolina National Guard and five from New Hampshire who were attached to the MP company.

The spokesman said the last time as many guard members were hit in an attack was when two soldiers were killed and seven wounded in 2004.



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