Updated at 11:48 a.m., Thursday, August 23, 2007
Son of Illinois police officer among soldiers killed
Associated Press
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Burbank Mayor Harry Klein announced the death of Phillip Brodnick during Wednesday's village board meeting, according to a story in today's editions of the Daily Southtown.
Klein said Brodnick lived in Burbank, a Chicago suburb, until he was 8 and then moved to the New Lenox area. Brodnick graduated from Lincoln-Way Central High School in 2000.
Brodnick is the son of police officer James Brodnick, said Burbank Police Chief Bruce Radowicz.
Klein said the southwest Chicago suburb's fire department will lover its flags to half mast until Brodnick's funeral.
The death toll from Wednesday's helicopter crash also included troops from Pennsylvania, California, Missouri and Ohio, according to news reports. The military did not immediately release the soldiers' names. Military officials say it appears mechanical problems and not hostile fire caused the crash.
The Black Hawk had just picked up troops after a mission when it crashed, said Lt. Col. Michael Donnelly, a military spokesman in northern Iraq.
The 10 troops picked up were based at Schofield Barracks in Hawai'i, according to a statement by Col. Timothy M. Ryan, rear detachment commander of the 25th Infantry Division.
