BOSTON (AP) β The pastor of a Massachusetts man killed while fighting with Kurdish forces against the Islamic State group in Syria says he had talked about “giving his life over to serve the Lord.”
Pastor Gary Moritz of the Twin City Baptist Church in Lunenburg says Keith Broomfield attended church services three times a week.
Broomfield is believed to be the first U.S. citizen killed while fighting alongside the Kurds against the Islamic State.
His sister-in-law, Melissa Broomfield, recalls that “he said that God told him he had to go, and without a second thought, he went.”
Westminster Police Chief Sam Albert says Broomfield’s mother described being unable to dissuade her son from going to fight the “persecution of Christians.”
A Kurdish official says Broomfield’s body was handed over to his family Thursday at a Turkish border crossing.
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