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Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Staff Sgt. Ryan D. Maseth accidental electrical shock

Army: Electrical shock killed SF soldier

The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Jan 8, 2008 17:01:11 EST

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — A Special Forces soldier died from cardiac arrest due to an apparent accidental electrical shock while deployed to Iraq, the Army announced Tuesday.

The non-combat death of Staff Sgt. Ryan D. Maseth last Wednesday in Baghdad is under investigation.

Maseth was a Special Forces Operational Detachment-Alpha team weapons sergeant assigned to the 5th Special Forces Group at Fort Campbell, Ky.

The 24-year-old soldier from Pittsburgh was serving his second deployment to Iraq after enlisting in June 2001.

His father, Doug Maseth, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that preliminary reports indicated he was shocked while taking a shower.

“You don’t expect your son to step into a shower and get killed,” Ryan Maseth’s mother, Cheryl Harris, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

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