The dog tags and other belongings of a U.S. Air Force airman killed in Afghanistan earlier this year were stolen from a car in a restaurant parking lot in Colorado Springs Tuesday, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Department said Wednesday.
Senior Airman Bradley R. Smith, 24, of Troy, Ill., was killed in an ambush near Kandahar Airfield on Jan. 3 as he and a medic recovered the body of another serviceman killed in the attack.
Four people died in the ambush and six were wounded.
Smith’s wife was in town to attend a memorial at Fort Carson Wednesday morning for her husband and four Fort Carson soldiers. She and her mother-in-law stopped for lunch at the Golden Corral Restaurant on Waynoka Drive near Powers Boulevard.
While they were inside around 1 p.m., someone smashed a rear window and took Smith’s dog tags, two laptops, a digital camera, a cell phone and a red Garmin wristwatch with a black band, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
Video surveillance of the parking lot 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 all El Paso County Sheriff’s Department at 719-520-7246 or Crime Stoppers at 719- 634-7867.
