How Robert died

Died when a makeshift bomb detonated near his vehicle during combat operations in Baghdad. [source: Faces of the Fallen]
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Houston Chronicle

Press Coverage [source: Faces of the Fallen]

Deer Park High grad killed in Iraq days after leave ends
  (Houston Chronicle, April 4, 2007)