Flags in Jennings County will be at half-staff today in honor of a Marine killed in a training accident in Okinawa. The funeral of Lance Corporal Jacky “JR” Koenig Jr. will be held at noon today at First Baptist Church in North Vernon.

The 20-year-old Marine died Sunday April 9th at Marine Corps Base Smedley D. Butler in Okinawa, Japan. He was a 2014 graduate of Jennings County High School where he competed in track, cross country and wrestling.

He joined the Marines in 2015 and was stationed at .Camp Pendleton in California.

Gov. Holcomb ordered the flags at state facilities in Jennings County be flown at half-staff and asked businesses and residents to do the same from sunrise to sunset today.