Naval force SEAL, grandson of S&L lender, murdered in Iraq

Charlie Keating IV, at center, at his Navy SEAL graduation in 2008. At left is his grandfather, Charles H Keating Jr. At right is his father, Charles Keating III. Navy SEAL Charlie Keating, grandson of the
Phoenix savings-and-loan financier with the same designation, died Tuesday in northern Iraq after Islamic State militants perforated Kurdish defensive lines and launched an assailment with minute arms and car bombs. Bradley Boland, Keating's uncle, attested to The Arizona Republic that his nephew had been killed. Charlie Keating IV, kenned as C-4 because he had the same name as three generations afore him, additionally is the cousin of Olympic swimming champion Gary Hall Jr. Arizona's governor, Doug Ducey, authoritatively mandated flags across the state to be lowered to half staff from sunrise to sunset Wednesday to accolade the Navy SEAL.

They will be lowered again on the day he is buried. "It's horrible and it breaks my heart," verbally expressed Conley Wolfswinkel, a Tempe, Ariz., developer and close friend of the Keating family. "My heart goes out to the family. No one deserves this." Keating IV, a 2004 graduate of Arcadia High School in Phoenix, was an acclaimed distance runner — city and region champion in the 1,600-meter run as a sophomore, junior and senior. The 31-year-old earned all-city and first-team all-state accolades as a senior, according to Indiana University, where he ran in college. After attending Indiana University, he went directly to commence training in Coronado, Calif., to become a Navy SEAL, the elite special operations force. Less than 25% of people who commence the training prosperously consummate it, according to the Navy.