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FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The family of a 33-year-old Michigan woman says the FBI confirmed Thursday that she was killed in fighting in Syria.
She was identified as Nicole Lynn Mansfield of Flint.
Her cousin, David Speelman of Flint, told The Associated Press that FBI agents visited family members Thursday and informed them of Mansfield’s death. […]
Speelman’s mother, Monica Mansfield Speelman, told the Detroit Free Press that her niece was a convert to Islam who married an Arab immigrant several years ago but later divorced him. The family was not happy about Mansfield’s conversion to Islam, said Monica Speelman and Mansfield’s grandmother, Carole Mansfield.