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| Capt. McClimans |
US Army Reserve, Captain Joshua McClimans, aged 30, from Pennsylvania was killed Friday 22nd April 2011 near Kabul, Afghanistan.
His grandmother, Esther McClimans, told reporters in Jamestown that her grandson had been shot be a sniper. She said that Army officials came to the town about 75 miles northwest of Pittsburgh to notify Michael McClimans, the soldier's father.
The Army says Capt. McClimans was on his way to work at an Army hospital when he was shot.
He would have turned 31 on 12th May.
McClimans graduated in 1998 from Jamestown High School, near the Ohio border. In recent months he lived near Akron, where he has a 6-year-old son and had planned to continue schooling to become an anesthetic nurse.