2theAdvocate -- The Louisiana National Guard reported Saturday night that Sgt. Christopher Ramsey was killed at about 4:30 p.m. while on patrol Friday in western Baghdad.

Ramsey, 20, was from Batchelor and had a wife and two young children, said Sharon Hebert, a justice of the peace and school bus driver in the Pointe Coupe Parish village.

"The whole town is in gloom," she said. "This is a rural community. Everybody knows everybody out here, we're all like family. I went to school with his mama. His grandmother called me this morning, and we just cried and cried."

Ramsey was "a sweet kid, and such a good looking boy," Hebert said.

He was the son of Angie and Jeff Ramsey, and his wife's name is Erica, Hebert said. He graduated from Pointe Coupee Central High School, where he participated in the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps program.

Angie Ramsey seemed to know that her son would not return from the war alive, Hebert said.

"His mama was just waiting for this to happen, and she was so burdened with that. She would say she couldn't leave the house in case they would come," Hebert said. "Well, they came yesterday in a white pickup. She said they got out, and when she saw two men in uniform, she just knew."

Hebert said that not too long ago, one of Ramsey's buddies was killed, and it hit him hard. He called home, and talked to his grandmother about it, Hebert said.

His grandmother told him to seek out his chaplain.

"He called the night before he died, and he said he had talked to the chaplain, and was reading his Bible," Hebert said. "He told them that the fear had left him."