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24-Year-Old Soldier From Westchester Killed In Off-Post Crash
A soldier from the Hudson Valley was killed in an off-post, single-vehicle crash in North Carolina.
Northern Westchester native Marcello L. Scrudato, a resident of Fishkill in Dutchess County since 2007, was 24 years old.
He died in a motor vehicle accident on Saturday, Jan. 29 in Sanford, North Carolina, located near the Fort Bragg Army Base, where he was stationed.
“As a soldier, Cpl. Scrudato was an outstanding individual, and as a person he was even better,” Lt. Col. Burton Furlow, commander of 528th Special Troops Battalion said in a statement reported by WNCN, CBS 17 in R…