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Juan Muñoz’s mother, National Guard soldier found dead in New Mexico more than two months after his disappearance, he doubts that his son committed suicide as the authorities allege.
The past 21 February, Muñoz, of 20 years, was reported to the New Mexico State Police as absent after he failed to show up for his training. Hours later, they found his vehicle and his belongings on a bridge in the Taos community.
“I found out about the disappearance the day 21, which was already the next day of what had happened. When the officers came, they came to tell me that he was not there. First they came at about 4 o’clock: 30 to look for him, because they had reported that he was not there, and after two hours they returned and they told me they had found the car because they tapped the phone, and they located it on the bridge “, Elizabeth Muñoz told EnNYConMas.
” That day, they They found the car and the belongings ”, clarified the woman.
The interviewee said that her son had not shown signs of suffering from depression or any emotional problem.
“They say that because of the depression he had had… and because of the way they found the car and his belongings, that all this teaches them to committed suicide, ”he indicated.
Soldier Juan Muñoz had lost his girlfriend and an uncle
The fact that the military lost His girlfriend and an uncle, according to the mother, had not affected him more than expected.
“At the beginning I was sad, just like any person who is living a mourning, because what we experience is mourning when we lose someone. Even if we express that nothing interests us, it does not mean that we are going to end our life ”, stated the woman.
Mother rejects farewell note
The mother also rejected that her son left the house angry or left a note of dismissed, as initially stated by the authorities by mistake.
Supposed psychological evaluation on the agenda
The Mexican also thundered against the expressions of the New Mexico state police officer, Dusty Francisco, who would have indicated in an email that Muñoz had in schedule a mental evaluation because he was suffering emotional problems.
“Yes it bothered me, because I am not going to allow them to want to dirty my son’s name by false things, ”he stated.
The woman also questioned whether they should disclose that information after the lifeless body appeared.
Elizabeth said that she will continue to insist to fully clarify the death of her son, and that she even has a meeting scheduled soon with the state police, since she fears that her son was disappeared.
This week they confirmed the identity of the body found by the Rio Grande
This week, the authorities confirmed that the body recovered the previous one by the Rio Grande corresponds to that of the young man.
Muñoz’s lifeless body appeared next to the bridge over the Rio Grande, a steel structure spanning the river gorge, some 10 miles to the Northwest Taos.