WESTMINSTER, Colo. -- A 19-year-old U.S. Marine from Westminster is the latest Coloradan to die in Iraq.

Jeremy Tamburello was killed when his light-armored vehicle struck a roadside bomb near the Syrian border.

Tamburello had just graduated from Ranum High School and the events of Sept. 11, 2001 and a military recruiter convinced him to join the Marines.

It was three Marines who showed up at Fred Tamburello's door Tuesday morning to tell him that his only son had died.

Kevin Tamburello said he last spoke to his son on the phone during Halloween.

"He was doing good. He was doing fine. And then all of a sudden, now this. He's dead," he said.

Tamburello said he does not support the war but always supported his son.

"He shouldn't have went over there. It shouldn't have happened. It's not what we want. My son died over something that shouldn't happen ... I regret that and I'm sure he does too," he said.

Yet Tamburello said his son was doing important work in Iraq, helping people there, helping save the country.

"He wasn't just somebody (who would) go over there and kill. He cared about people. He cared about us and that's why he went," Tamburello. "I loved him. I love my son. I miss him."

On Wednesday, four soldiers assigned to Fort Carson, Colo., were reported to have died in a suicide bomb blast in Baghdad.