The body of 23-year-old senior airman Shawn McKeough of Westbrook returns home after he was killed March 15 in an armed robbery at a gas station in Arkansas. Credit: CBS 13

The body of an airman who died while trying to stop an armed robbery in Arkansas has returned home to Maine.

A procession escorted the body of 23-year-old Senior Airman Shawn McKeough Jr. from Boston to a Portland funeral home Thursday evening.

The Westbrook native was stationed at the Little Rock Air Force Base in Jacksonville.

McKeough was fatally shot while trying to stop a robbery at a North Little Rock gas station March 15.

Four teenagers are facing charges in his death.

Funeral arrangements are being made.

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