Jonathan Keller died after returning to the states from complications to a injury he received in Afghanistan. (Handout)
Guardsman from Wading River dies at military hospital
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
BY CARL MACGOWAN carl.macgowan@newsday.com
10:22 PM EST, January 26, 2009
An Army National Guardsman from Wading River who was shot nine months ago in a firefight by the Afghanistan-Pakistan border has died at a military hospital in North Carolina.
Spc. Jonathan Keller had been rehabilitating from gunshot wounds to his arm and upper right shoulder when he died Saturday at Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg. He was 29.
His death is under investigation, the Department of Defense said Monday night. The Pentagon provided no details of Keller's condition before his death.
Keller was a former member of the legendary "Fighting 69th" National Guard unit, based in Bay Shore.
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