EL PASO, Texas ( KTSM ) — Members of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration here in El Paso remembered one of their own who was killed in the line of duty 15 years ago.
DEA Special Agent Forrest N. Leamon was killed on Oct. 26, 2009 when a U.S. military helicopter he was in crashed while returning from a joint counternarcotics mission in western Afghanistan, according to DEA.
Leamon was 37 at the time of his death. He had been assigned to the DEA Field Division in El Paso since 2003.
He is buried at Restlawn Cemetery in El Paso, and each year on the anniversary of his death, the DEA family gather to place flowers on his gravesite.
Leamon was a member of the DEA’s foreign-deployed Advisory and Support Team Echo, assigned to Afghanistan at the time of his death.