GRANTSBURG, WI (WTAQ) – A northwest Wisconsin Marine killed at a Navy facility in Tennessee will not come home until an investigation ends.
Folks in the small Burnett County village of Grantsburg continue to mourn the death of 26-year-old Carson Holmquist.
He was among 4 Marines killed last Thursday by a gunman at the Navy’s Chattanooga operational center. A fifth Marine died over the weekend.
Holmquist is a diesel mechanic specialist who played football in high school. He was in training when he was killed.
Holmquist’s wife and 2-year-old son were living in Georgia. But folks in and around Grantsburg in Burnett and Polk counties are hurting.
Several Grantsburg High School graduates sign up for the military each year, and every one of them gets a sendoff by the local American Legion Post. They also get a welcome home.
Holmquist served two previous military deployments in Afghanistan and Okinawa in Japan.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
