11 May 2007

Rialto, California

The son of a Rialto police captain was killed by a bomb in Iraq.   Army Pfc. William A. Farrar Jr., a 20-year-old military policeman from Redlands, died Friday when a homemade explosive blew up near his vehicle in Iskandariyah, about 30 miles south of Baghdad.

Farrar was assigned to the 127th Military Police Company, 709th Military Police Battalion, 18th Military Police Brigade, based in Darmstadt, Germany.

Farrar was the eldest of three sons of police Capt. Tony Farrar.  "We were all real proud of him and his decision to join the armed forces and serve the country," said Sgt. Tim Lane, a police spokesman.   "We've lost a part of our law enforcement family," he said. 

Rialto is about 60 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.