Army Master Sgt. Wilberto Sabalu Jr.

Died May 6, 2007 Serving During Operation Enduring Freedom

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36, of Chicago; assigned to the U.S. Military Police School, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.; died May 6 at Pol-e-Charki, Afghanistan of wounds suffered from small-arms fire. Also killed was Col. James W. Harrison Jr.

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Chicago soldier identified as victim of prison shooting in Afghanistan

The Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. — A Chicago man was among two U.S. soldiers killed during a shooting at a prison in Afghanistan last weekend, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.

Master Sgt. Wilberto Sabalu Jr., 36, of Chicago and Col. James W. Harrison, 47, of Missouri died Sunday at Pul-e-Charkhi, about 20 miles east of Kabul, of wounds suffered from small arms fire, the Department of Defense said in a statement.

The gunman was an Afghan soldier posted outside the prison, which is being revamped to house Afghans transferred from Guantanamo Bay. The gunman was shot dead by other Afghan troops.

Harrison, Sabalu and two other U.S. soldiers who were wounded in the shootings worked as mentors to Afghan troops providing external security for the prison, the Army said Sunday.

Sabalu was assigned to the Military Police School at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri. Other details of his military career were not immediately available.

Harrison was serving as a detention policy expert with the Combined Forces Command Afghanistan. Before going to Afghanistan in December 2006, he was assigned to Fort Leavenworth as director of the School for Command Preparation at the Command and General Staff College, according to a news release from the post’s public affairs office.

He is survived by a wife and three sons.