Navy Officials Known Fortress Hood Soldier Vanessa Guillen’s Remains, Household Attorney Says
The military has positively identified the stays of Spc. Vanessa Guillen, her family attorney told BuzzFeed News on Sunday.
Natalie Khawam stated that Guillen’s family became once told by the Navy on Sunday, that human stays came upon earlier this week in Bell County, Texas, had been these of the 20-yr-extinct soldier who went missing from her unpleasant at Fortress Hood in April.
The Navy has no longer but publicly identified the stays as these of Guillen’s and failed to answer to a search recordsdata from for touch upon Sunday.
A 20-yr-extinct U.S. Navy Specialist, Aaron Robinson, allegedly bludgeoned Guillen to loss of life in Fortress Hood on April 22, the day Guillen became once final viewed, in keeping with federal authorities.
Robinson died by suicide in Killeen on Wednesday, as police officers approached him.
Federal authorities arrested Robinson’s female friend, 22-yr-extinct Cecily Aguilar, who allegedly helped him “mutilate and put off” Guillen’s physique.
Aguilar became once charged with one county of conspiracy to tamper with proof. She became once the “estranged wife” of 1 other Fortress Hood soldier, in keeping with Navy officials.
A criminal complaint alleges Robinson told Aguilar that he had killed Guillen by inserting her in the head with a hammer multiple instances on the hands room where he worked at Fortress Hood. In accordance with the complaint, he also admitted to her that he positioned her physique in a box and transferred it to a a long way flung keep stop to Leon River in Bell County, the complaint stated.
Robinson took Aguilar to the keep and the 2 of them allegedly dismembered the physique and attempted to burn it. They positioned the physique parts in three separate holes and lined up the stays, in keeping with the complaint.
Earlier this week, military officials stated that investigators came upon partial human stays after they returned to an “house of curiosity” stop to Leon River at some stage in the understanding for Guillen.
Guillen had been carrying a gloomy T-shirt with purple health-kind pants when she became once final viewed in the auto parking keep of her barracks on April 22.
A understanding stated she left the hands room where she had been working that day to transfer to one other hands room that became once controlled by Robinson, in an effort to substantiate serial numbers for weapons and tools, in keeping with the complaint.
Her vehicle keys, barracks room key, and identification card had been later indicate in the armory room where she had been working earlier that day.
After Guillen went missing in April, her family told Navy officials that Guillen had told them, and a few of her traffic, that a male sergeant had walked in on her whereas she became once in the bathe in the females’s locker room, Khawam told BuzzFeed News.
Khawam stated that Guillen failed to legend the allegations to her supervisors attributable to she feared retaliation.
Navy officials stated Thursday that their investigation “has no longer came upon any connection” between the sexual harassment allegations and her disappearance. Officials stated there became once no “credible” recordsdata up to now that Robinson had sexually confused Guillen and that they had been soundless investigating their relationship.
On Sunday, Texas Uncover. Sylvia Garcia issued an announcement announcing she became once “heartbroken” over Guillen’s loss of life.
“Vanessa became once a 20-yr Latina soldier with a gleaming future earlier than her,” Garcia stated in an announcement. “Sadly, that gleaming future became once lower immediate whereas she became once serving our nation. I will proceed to work with the family until they secure justice for Vanessa and we guarantee this by no ability again occurs to one other soldier.”