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American paramedic, and local Tucsonan, Joseph Stone, 36, was killed during a monitoring mission in Ukraine Sunday, April 23.

Stone was a member of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or SMM, and he was the first SMM to be killed in the line of duty. Two other monitors were injured alongside Stone when an explosion damaged a mission vehicle in eastern Ukraine.

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