Second Private Luis Moreno, 19, has became the third Dominican casualty in the Iraqi conflict, following the deaths of Steven Checo and Raiyan Tejada. Moreno died of wounds received on 23 January in Baghdad, Iraq. He had joined the US Army in January 2003 and was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas. He was then assigned to a unit as cannon crewmember and sent to Iraq in September 2003. Moreno was shot while on dismounted guard duty at a gas station. Moreno moved with his family to Bronx, New York in 1993 and was the youngest of four brothers and sisters. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg attended his funeral. While Moreno was in Iraq as part of the US Army, the Dominican Republic maintains its deployment of 300 soldiers in Iraq in solidarity with the US.