Orlando Sentinel -- A family's search for the girlfriend and infant daughter of a Special Forces soldier from Longwood who was mortally wounded this week in Iraq ended with a phone call.

Spc. Marco Miller's brother and sisters found his girlfriend's phone number late Tuesday, the same day the paratrooper was taken off life support at a military hospital in Germany.

Miller, 36, suffered massive head wounds Sunday from indirect enemy fire while conducting an escort mission in Taji, Iraq. Miller was assigned to the 3rd Battalion Support Company, 20th Special Forces Group, Camp Blanding, the Department of Defense announced late Thursday.

The Army flew his sisters and brother to Germany, where they decided nothing more could be done for him, the family said. Marco Miller's siblings knew he had a child but did not know his girlfriend's name and were unable to reach her earlier in the week. They found Misty Jefferson's phone number among Marco Miller's papers, his brother said.

"I personally wanted to be the one who told her," younger brother Demond Miller said Thursday. "She's already part of our family."