KILLEEN, Texas (AP) — U.S. Military investigators are suspecting foul play within the disappearance of a Texas soldier who has been lacking for 2 months, a congresswoman confirmed Tuesday.
Pfc. Vanessa Guillen’s disappearance is being handled as a prison investigation after she went lacking April 22, U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia mentioned.
“We don’t need simply consideration. We wish motion. We wish solutions,” Garcia mentioned. “We’ve acquired to do not forget that this can be a household that’s hurting.”
Garcia, representing Texas’s 29th congressional district, and Guillen’s household met with Military leaders to debate the investigation into the disappearance of the 20-year-old Fort Hood soldier.
In the course of the assembly, members of the family instructed Military officers that Guillen instructed them she’d been sexually harassed by her superiors. However Guillen didn’t report the harassment as a result of she was afraid of retaliation, mentioned Natalie Khawam, the household’s lawyer.
Khawam mentioned she needs Congress to conduct an investigation into how the case is being dealt with as a result of Military investigators haven’t been disclosing particulars.
“There’s one thing extraordinarily troubling about this case. A army base might be some of the safe locations you will be. You’ve ID check-ins. There are safety cameras all over the place,” Khawam mentioned.
Guillen was final seen at a Fort Hood car parking zone carrying a black T-shirt and purple exercise pants.
Guillen’s automobile, keys and pockets had been all left behind within the armory room the place she was working earlier within the day on April 22, and her telephone is lacking.