( CNN ) -- After nearly four years of hoping , waiting and praying , an Ohio family learned Sunday their missing son died in Iraq . A 2004 memorial at Glen Este High School in Ohio in honor of Sgt . Keith Matthew Maupin . `` It hurts -- it really hurts . You go through four years of hope , '' said Carolyn Maupin , whose son , Staff Sgt . Keith Matthew Maupin , was captured by insurgents in April 2004 . `` It 's like a letdown to me . I 'm trying to get through that right now . '' His father , Keith Maupin , said military officials informed the family Sunday afternoon that the remains of the 24-year-old Army reservist had been identified . `` Every parent knows the possibility exists that they may have to face the death of their child when they volunteer to go to war , '' he said . `` However , those who are fortunate make peace with that and support their soldier , because they enlisted at their own free will . '' A Defense Department official also confirmed the identification , saying Maupin 's remains were found last week but DNA results just came in . Coalition forces found the remains after a local Iraqi tipped them off , military officials said . Maupin , who was 20 at the time of his capture , and another soldier , Sgt . Elmer Krause , 40 , were captured by insurgents April 9 , 2004 , after their convoy came under attack near Baghdad International Airport . A week later , Maupin was shown on a videotape , surrounded by several armed masked men . `` My name is Keith Matthew Maupin , '' he stated in the video . `` I am a soldier from the First Division . I am married with a 10-month-old child . I came to liberate Iraq , but I did not come willingly because I wanted to stay with my child . '' Krause 's body was found two weeks later . Later that summer , Al-Jazeera aired a videotape purportedly showing the execution of Maupin , but U.S. officials have n't confirmed the identity of the person on the tape . The U.S. Army continued to promote Maupin , who was a private first class in the Army Reserves at the time of his capture , to sergeant and then staff sergeant as they searched for him . Three U.S. troops remain missing in the five-year-old Iraq war : Pvt . Byron W. Fouty and Spc . Alex R. Jimenez have been missing since their military convoy was raided west of Mahmoudiya May 12 . Spc . Ahmed K. Altaie disappeared October 23 , 2006 , and his status was changed to `` missing-captured '' nearly two months later . The news about Maupin came Sunday as roadside bombings in northern and western Iraq killed two U.S. troops and attacks on Iraqi police and others left another 19 dead , Iraqi police and U.S. military officials reported . One roadside bombing killed a U.S. soldier north of Baghdad , and a Marine died in another bombing in the western province of Anbar , the U.S. military headquarters there reported . No details of the attacks were released . The latest attacks bring the U.S. death toll in the five-year-old war to 4,009 . E-mail to a friend . CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr contributed to this report .
Staff Sgt . Keith Matthew Maupin 's remains were found , U.S. military says . Maupin appeared in video aired by Al-Jazeera , saying he was husband , father . His convoy came under attack near Baghdad International Airport in 2004 . The body of another convoy soldier , Sgt . Elmer Krause , was found that year .