A Hispanic soldier identified as Ana Fernanda Basaldua Ruiz21 years old and of Mexican origin, was found dead on Monday March 13 at the military base of Fort Hood, Texas (USA), where he has been for the past 15 months, according to local TV news KWTX.
Basaldua was a combat engineer with the 1st Cavalry Division and the causes of his death are still under investigation, according to information provided by the military base, the same one where the soldier Vanessa Guillén she was reported missing and then found dead in 2020.
The military said it communicated the death to the soldier’s parents and provided the resources to psychological support for the family and the comrades who served with Basaldua in the barracks.
“We are deeply saddened by the irreparable loss of the soldier and send our condolences to his father, mother and brother,” the army statement read under the title of the commander. Patrick Sullivan.
Private Basaldua, originally from Mexico and naturalized American, I was about to be three years old with the army and had reported to his parents that he was being sexually harassed, according to local media.
The death of another soldier in the same military compound reminds us of the The Guillen Affair pounded to death by a colleague who removed her body and dismembered it before burying it in a remote location.
The alleged murderer Aaron Robinson, A 20-year-old killed himself as police prepared to question him after their court appearance human remains of Guillén, almost two months after his disappearance.
Robinson’s couple Cecily Ann Aguilar, was charged with aiding and abetting the soldier’s remains near the León River in Killen, Texas.