Police in Texas discovered a physique on Tuesday that they deem is Sgt. Elder Fernandes, a Castle Hood soldier who has been lacking for nine days.
“Identification discovered at the scene indicates the sufferer could be lacking Castle Hood Soldier 23-year-old Elder Fernandes,” police in Temple, Texas, acknowledged, including that officers determined “the topic had been deceased for some interval of time.”
An lawyer for Fernandes’ household, Natalie Khawan, acknowledged in a commentary, “Our worst nightmare has took place.”
“Surely one of our possess, Sergeant Elder Fernandes turn out to be discovered tiring,” she acknowledged. “We’re sickened by this tragedy that has took place one too repeatedly. We’re heartbroken for Elder Fernandes’s household.”
Police in Temple, which is set 30 miles east of Castle Hood, acknowledged in a commentary that the division received a call spherical 5: 30 p.m. on Tuesday just a few physique discovered advance railroad tracks in the metropolis.
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Fernandes’ driver’s license turn out to be discovered in a backpack advance the physique, Khawan suggested NBC Boston.
Authorities acknowledged they didn’t suspect defective play, but didn’t specify a explanation for death.
Fernandes, of Brockton, Massachusetts, turn out to be honest honest as we train transferred to a obvious unit on account of he turn out to be an alleged sufferer of “abusive sexual contact,” U.S. Navy officers acknowledged Saturday. He turn out to be final seen Aug 17.
Lt. Col. Chris Brautigam, a 1st Cavalry Division spokesman suggested NBC News final week that there turn out to be an “inaugurate investigation of abusive sexual contact provocative Sgt. Fernandes.”
“The unit sexual assault response coordinator has been working carefully with Sgt. Fernandes, making sure he turn out to be aware of all his reporting, care, and sufferer advocacy alternatives,” he acknowledged. Fernandes turn out to be honest honest as we train transferred from a unit that turn out to be deployed to any other unit “to create particular he received basically the most attention-grabbing care and create particular there had been no alternatives for reprisals.”
In her commentary, Khawan known as for a congressional investigation into Castle Hood, which has seen a series of soldier disappearances and deaths in the past year.
Earlier this month, Castle Hood officers recovered the physique of Francisco Gilberto Hernandez-Vargas, 24, following an Aug. 2 boating incident on Stillhouse Hollow Lake, a reservoir managed by the U.S. Navy Corps of Engineers’ Castle Value District.
Mejhor Morta, 26, turn out to be discovered unresponsive July 17 in the vicinity of Stillhouse Hollow Lake, consistent with Castle Hood officers.
On July 1, human stays that had been later identified as 20-year-old lacking Castle Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen had been discovered about 20 miles east of the depraved. A suspect in that case, Castle Hood soldier Aaron Robinson, shot and killed himself as police moved in to arrest him. A girl that officers identified as Robinson’s female friend turn out to be arrested and has pleaded no longer responsible to federal charges of tampering with proof.
On June 21, skeletal stays had been discovered in a field in Killeen, appropriate over 10 miles from Stillhouse Hollow Lake, that had been therefore identified as 24-year-old lacking Castle Hood soldier Gregory Morales. U.S. Navy officers have acknowledged they maintain defective play in his death.
