The Defense Department released the identity of a Washington state soldier serving with a Fort Bragg unit who was killed in Afghanistan.

Spc. Joseph T. Caron, of Tacoma, age 21, died Sunday in Char Bagh, Afghanistan. Insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive device.

He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division.