By Rick McGee
SooToday.com
Monday, October 26, 2009

For the second time in less than a month, a U.S. soldier with roots in the Michigan Soo has died in Afghanistan.

Army Specialist Brandon Steffey, 23, was killed yesterday by a roadside bomb.

He grew up across the river and graduated from Brimley High School in 2005.

According to 9&10 News, Steffey joined the army in 2006 and was on his second tour as a K-9 handler.

The deceased leaves a young daughter in Texas.

On October 14, funeral services were held in a Rudyard school gymnasium for Army Sergeant Christopher Griffin who had died 11 days earlier during an attack by insurgents.

Griffin was born in the Michigan Soo and raised in Kincheloe.