Hebron Marine killed (Tyler Warndorf)

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Eduardo Vazquez, left, of Rome, New York, and Cpl. Tyler Warndorf, of Hebron, Kentucky, rest in an Iraqi family's house during a patrol, in Ramadi, the capitol of Iraq's volatile, western Anbar province, on June 26. Cpl. Warndorf was killed Tuesday.

A Hebron Marine died Tuesday while serving in Iraq’s western Anbar Province, family members said Wednesday.

U.S. Marine Cpl. Tyler Warndorf, 21, gained local fame in June when Associated Press photographers took a picture of him and other soldiers in combat. The Enquirer then provided the photographs to the Warndorf family, who enjoyed seeing him for the first time in months.

Tuesday night, Marines told the family of his death.

“Obviously, we’re devastated,” said Lillian Warndorf, Tyler’s grandmother. “We never could have imagined this.”

But in June, when Lillian and Tyler’s grandfather, Gerald, saw the pictures, they expressed concern for their grandson, who had returned to Iraq for a second tour of duty.

“He’s going to get himself killed over there,” Gerald Warndorf said at the time.

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