LAKEVIEW (AP) — The Department of Defense announced late Monday that a soldier from Oregon was killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad.

Cpl. Jessica A. Ellis, 24, of Bend died Sunday. She was assigned to the 2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.

Ellis was a 2002 graduate of Lakeview High School. The (Klamath Falls) Herald and News reported that she lettered in track and cross country and was on the school’s swim team.

The newspaper reported that her parents are Steve and Linda Ellis, and her father formerly worked as the district manager for the Bureau of Land Management’s district office in Lakeview.