MITCHELLVILLE, Md. — A 22-year-old soldier from Mitchellville was killed Aug. 15 by indirect enemy fire, the Department of Defense said.

Sgt. Princess C. Samuels was the fourth Maryland woman killed in the war, according to an Associated Press database of casualty records released by the military.

Samuels was killed in Taji, Iraq, according to a news release from the Defense Department. Zandra T. Walker, 28, of Greenville, S.C., was killed in the same attack.

Samuels was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division.

Family members did not return calls seeking comment Aug. 20.

Early Monday afternoon, Samuels’ MySpace.com page had 42 messages offering love and prayers for her family and friends dating back to August 16. Several of the messages called her “Noodle” and “Lady P.”

One message remembered her as a woman with a beautiful spirit and a strong personality who “always made me see the good side of things [and] laugh at stuff that I didn’t think I could laugh at.”

Samuels graduated from Charles Herbert Flowers High School in Springdale, Md., in 2003, Prince George’s County schools spokesman John White said.

Walker is the fourth South Carolina woman to die in the war in Iraq, according to The Associated Press database.