Family and close friends are gathering on Tuesday to pay final respects to Amy Pvt. 1st Class Gebrah Noonan.
The 26-year-old soldier from Watertown was killed in Iraq last week. A fellow soldier, Neftaly Platero, is accused of shooting Noonan and another soldier during an argument.
Friends, family and well-wishers visited the Albini Funeral Home in Waterbury for calling hours, including Sen. Joe Lieberman and Gov. M. Jodi Rell.
"It’s definitely what Gebrah would have wanted," said Patrick Jacques, a friend who is acting as a family spokesperson.
The military is still not releasing many details about the incident, but reports state that Platero fired shots after a heated argument, shot three soldiers, killing two of them.
Rell said that she spoke with the family by phone and asked if there was anything that she could do for them. Noonan’s mother asked Rell to bring a flag of the state of Connecticut that had flown over the capital.
"We grabbed a flag right away and asked our Capitol police to fly it over our Capitol and we sent it over the next day," Rell said.
