Rick Scott Orders Flags Lowered for St. Petersburg Army Analyst

Gov. Rick Scott has ordered state and national flags lowered to half-staff Saturday outside the Pinellas County Courthouse, St. Petersburg City Hall and state Capitol for Brittany Gordon.

Gordon, 24, a U.S. Army intelligence analyst from St. Petersburg, was killed Oct. 13 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds caused by an improvised explosive device.

Gordon, who joined the military in 2010 after attending the University of Florida and St. Petersburg College, was assigned to 572 Military Intelligence Company, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.