{"id":306589,"date":"2026-07-27T14:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306589\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:53:10","slug":"vigil-set-to-honor-life-of-queens-soldier-killed-overseas-during-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306589\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigil set to honor life of Queens soldier killed overseas during Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vigil will be held Monday night for the soldier from Queens who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/us-solider-angel-rampersad-killed-ozone-park-queens-iran-war-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">killed<\/a> in an attack on a U.S. base in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Angel Rampersad will be remembered at the 7 p.m. vigil in front of her family&#8217;s Ozone Park house.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rampersad died during an Iranian missile attack on July 17 on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. The 28-year-old was initially listed missing before military officials confirmed she died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785163990_793_sgt-angel-rampersad.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"sgt-angel-rampersad.jpg \" height=\"391\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Sgt. Angel Rampersad in an undated photo provided by the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>                Department of Defense<\/p>\n<p>Rampersad was born in Trinidad but grew up in New York. She attended P.S. 108, then Forest Hills High School, and later graduated from John Jay College with a degree in criminal justice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/angel-rampersad-us-soldier-killed-iran-war-ozone-park-queens\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">survived<\/a> by her parents, older sister and her spouse, whom she met in the military. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My daughter was a good soldier. She fought for this country, and she died for this country,&#8221; said her mother, Carol Acevedo. &#8220;I am a mother that is highly proud of her.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Queens Borough President Donovan Richards said Rampersad will be remembered as the &#8220;drummer, singer and star athlete at Forest Hills High School.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sam Esposito, president of the Ozone Park Residents Block Association, called her a hometown hero.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The funeral will be Friday morning, where the public is invited to honor her life, service and sacrifice. It will be at 9 a.m. at the Calvary Assembly of God on Rockaway Boulevard. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vigil will be held Monday night for the soldier from Queens who was killed in an attack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14670,9,11,10,29389],"class_list":["post-306589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-iran","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-ozone-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}