Overview
- Collington’s flag-draped casket arrived Wednesday at Orlando Executive Airport and was taken to Marvin C. Zanders Funeral Home in Apopka where family and community members gathered to mourn.
- The Army reported that Collington fell from a seaside cliff while on an off-duty recreational hike in Morocco during the African Lion exercise and described the incident as accidental.
- A second soldier, 1st Lt. Kendrick Lamont Key Jr., also died after the same fall and family members said he attempted to save Collington during the incident.
- U.S. and Moroccan personnel conducted an extended multinational search that recovered both soldiers before their remains were repatriated to the United States.
- Collington was a 19-year-old air and missile defense crewmember assigned to Charlie Battery, 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, and a 2024 graduate of Evans High School with a public celebration of life set for June 13.