October 10, 2011 --
A soldier who was a native of Gary, Indiana, has been killed while serving in Afghanistan. Army Ranger Ricardo Cerros Jr. died in a firefight Saturday in Afghanistan's Logar province. He lived in Gary until he was 5 years old but spent most of his life living in Salinas, California. His mother, Marguerite Cuevas, still lives in Gary.
It was Cerros' first deployment to Afghanistan.
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