Classmates remember ex-Marine from Norman killed in Thailand

Former Marine Dashawn Longfellow, 23, was killed Saturday in Thailand, reportedly stabbed to death by a British man who fought him earlier that night in a bar.

 
BY JAMES S. TYREE   
Published: August 18, 2010

His given name was Dashawn Longfellow, but the Norman High School graduate was known simply as "Deeds" to the Marines who served with him.

photo - Beaux Cochran, left, with best friend, fellow Marine and Norman High graduate Dashawn Longfellow. PHOTO PROVIDED BY KELLY COCHRAN. <strong>Provided</strong>
Beaux Cochran, left, with best friend, fellow Marine and Norman High graduate Dashawn Longfellow. PHOTO PROVIDED BY KELLY COCHRAN. Provided

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Longfellow, 23, was killed Saturday in Thailand, reportedly stabbed to death by a British man who fought him earlier that night in a bar.

"He didn't deserve what happened to him," close friend Kelly Cochran wrote in an e-mail to The Oklahoman. "The man responsible will be caught, and I pray for his soul. As for Deeds, I'm not worried about him because I know he's at peace."

Matt Gronbach, a Marine who called Longfellow "a great mentor to me and a (superior) machine-gunner" in Afghanistan, explained the source of his popular name.

"He got the nickname Deeds off the movie 'Mr. Deeds' because Adam Sandler's first name in the movie was Longfellow and his last Deeds," he said.

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