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AFGHANISTAN – July 17, 2010. An Army sergeant who graduated from Carroll County High School and formerly lived in Worthville, Ky., has died in Afghanistan.
The Defense Department has not released the circumstances of the death of Sgt. Christopher Todd “Chris” Stout, 34, who joined the Army when he was 18.
Stout was stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., with the 82nd Airborne Division and lived with his wife and their children in Fayetteville, N.C.
Funeral arrangements are pending. His body was flown to Dover Air Force Base on Thursday.
Carroll County Judge Executive Harold “Shorty” Tomlinson said that he had known Stout, his parents and grandparents for a long time, ordered that flags in Carroll County be flown at half-staff until further notice.
Tomlinson said a local memorial service will be scheduled.
“He was just a fantastic good boy all the way around,” Rev. Raymond Sharon, pastor of Worthville United Pentecostal Church in Carrollton, where Stout had been a member, told WAVE-TV. “Faithful to church, faithful to his family, his wife.”
His family was told his death was caused by “something about a missile had entered where they were out and blew them up,” Stout’s father, Billy Neuner, told WHAS.;
”Chris was our everything,” Jeanie Rider, Stout’s aunt, told WHAS. “He died for America. I think everybody ought to be proud of him.”
Gunmen kidnapped five Health Ministry employees in Afghanistan’s volatile Kandahar province while insurgents killed a district official elsewhere, reportedly on the orders of the Taliban supreme leader, officials said Thursday.
Bombings, gunbattles, assassinations and abductions have been increasing this year as thousands of American troops partnered with Afghan forces fan out in the insurgents’ southern strongholds to try to wrest back control and establish effective local government.
The kidnappers were not identified, but Taliban insurgents have been on spree of assassinations and abductions of government workers. The campaign of fear is especially intense in Kandahar, where Afghan and international forces have been increasing their presence.
The Madison Courrier
Chris u were such a great man husband father and friend you are greatly missed.. Everyone should always remember what you died for you gave your life for this country which many other women and men do everyday. God Bless Our Country and return all of our soldiers HOME….