The dog tags and other belongings of a U.S. Air Force airman killed in Afghanistan were stolen from a car in a restaurant parking lot in Colorado Springs, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday.
Senior Airman Bradley R. Smith, 24, of Troy, Ill., was killed in an ambush near Kandahar Airfield on Jan. 3. Smith’s wife and his mother had flown into town for Wednesday’s memorial service at Fort Carson. After picking up some of Smith’s personal items, they stopped Tuesday for lunch at the Golden Corral on Waynoka Drive.
While they were inside, someone smashed a rear window and took Smith’s dog tags, two laptops, a digital camera and other items.
Video surveillance indicated the thief was driving a dark, two-tone sport utility vehicle — possibly a Chevrolet Suburban — with running boards and a luggage rack.
Anyone with information should call the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office at 719-520-7246 or Crime Stoppers at 719-634-STOP (7867). The Denver Post
