Massachusetts Soldier, Family Killed In Car Crash In South Korea

BOSTON — A U.S. Army soldier from Boston and his wife and young child died Monday in a car crash near a military base in South Korea, Stars and Stripes reported.

Army Spc. Luis Taveras, 27 of Jamaica Plain, his wife, Lisbeth, 30, and their son, Luis, 1, were killed in a crash with a tow truck Monday night near Camp Humphreys, an Army garrison.

Taveras was in the Army for four years, Stars and Stripes reported. He arrived in South Korea in June and served with the 19th Expeditionary Sustainment Command as a quartermaster and chemical equipment repairer with the 19th Expeditionary Sustainment Command.

“No words can accurately express the pain their friends and family are having to confront,” Brig. Gen. Steven Allen, the unit’s commander, said in a statement Wednesday. “We will, as an Army team, move forward in a manner that provides support and assistance to those grieving.”

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