Created: 1/31/2006 10:46:37 AM 
High Point, NC -- A Marine from North Carolina who became a US citizen less than a year ago has died in Iraq.
Family members of 21-year-old Corporal Felipe Barbosa say he was killed when the Humvee in which he was a passenger overturned.
The Marines have not released details of the accident, which occurred Friday.
Barbosa of High Point, was an infantryman with the second Battalion, Sixth Marine regiment.
Family members, including his wife, 19-year-old Christina, gathered on Monday in High Point to remember Barbosa, who was born in Brazil.
Barbosa became a US citizen in February 2005. He had joined the Marines on December 31, 2002.
Associated Press
