A young man was killed in yesterday in Iraq. His name was Kyle Kaszynski. Kyle was a police officer for the St. Paul Police Department who was on leave from his job in St. Paul working for a private security contractor training new police officers and providing other security services in Iraq.
Yesterday, Kyle was traveling in a small convey from Baghdad to Baquba when his vehicle hit an improvised explosive device (IED) that destroyed his vehicle and killed Kyle and another occupant in his vehicle, Mr. Johannes Strauss, a South African employee of the same security contractor that Kyle also worked for.
We have our own connection to Kyle here in Eden Prairie. Kyle’s sister Beth is an Engineering Technician in the City’s Engineering Division. You can read more about Kyle in an article in today’s Star Tribune. There’s also an article in today’s St. Paul Pioneer Press about Kyle.
I think I can speak for many of Beth’s friends and co-workers here are at the City of Eden Prairie when I say that we have Beth and her family in our prayers right now. We grieve with her for her loss.
