LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – A video of the funeral service for a fallen Kelseyville soldier is available for viewing online.
The service for Sgt. Richard Essex, 23, was held Saturday morning at the Kelseyville High School football field.
An estimated 1,500 people attended the service to pay their respects to the young man.
Essex, who graduated from Kelseyville High School in 2008, was serving as a Black Hawk helicopter door gunner when his helicopter was shot down over Afghanistan’s Kandahar province on Thursday, Aug. 16. Ten others also died in the crash.
The video was produced by McKenzie Paine of Velocity Video, with contributions from John Jensen of Lake County News.