Former EHHS student killed in Iraq

UNDATED - A young soldier who attended East Hall High School has been killed in Iraq.

Pfc. Johnathon Millican was one of four soldiers from Fort Richardson, Alaska , who were abducted by gunmen disguised as American soldiers from Karbala and later found shot to death about 25 miles away.

Millican, whose mother, Mary Lykens, still lives in Gainesville went to Lula Elementary School and attended East Hall High, according to a Birmingham, Ala., funeral home.

The funeral will be Saturday in Birmingham.

According to a Associated Press dispatch, Millican, 20, of Trafford, Ala., had been talking with his wife, Shannon, by Web cam the day he was abducted.

"She heard somebody holler for them to run, and John took off. She said it was later that his computer was logged off," said Linda Hill of Locust Fork, with whom Pvt. Millican lived while he was in high school.

Ms. Hill said Shannon Millican told her that night her husband had been killed.

Pvt. Millican, a former high school football player and a member of an airborne artillery brigade, had been in Iraq about three months. He had written on his MySpace page: "You don't have to love the war, but you have to love the warrior.