A Southern California family is shattered after a 32-year-old who served in the Marines died in a missile strike in Ukraine last week. He had been defending the country where he met his girlfriend on the front lines for 15 months.
Selfless, caring and adventurous.
Those are just some of the words used to describe 32-year-old Ian Tortorici, who graduated from Laguna Hills High School, served in the U.S. Marines and had voluntarily resigned from his job at ICE to go fight in Ukraine, a country he fell in love with some years before.
SoCal native and US Marine dies in missile strike in Ukraine after joining front lines 15 months ago
