COLONIE, NY -- The family of a Fort Lewis-based soldier said the military has not released the manner of their daughter's death, and told them only that she died of "non-combat related injuries."

According to the soldier's mother, Staff Sergeant Amy Seyboth Tirador was killed by a gunshot to the back of her head in Kirkush, Iraq last Wednesday, Her father, Gerard Seyboth, said her death occurred inside a military base.

Tirador's father said his daughter's most recent assignment in Iraq made her "a high profile target," CBS affiliate WRGB in Albany reported.

Tirador worked in intelligence gathering as an Arabic-speaking interrogator and translator.

The Staff Sergeant's mother, Colleen Murphy, said the death was not accidental and not suicide but during a briefing by two generals at Dover Air Force Base, she and Seyboth were told they would not be given any information about their daughter's death until they were sure of how it happened.

Tirador served as a medic during her first tour in Iraq and then learned Arabic for her second tour.