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TEXAS – After a year of the violent death of the Hispanic soldier Vanesa Guillén, her fiancé, Juan Cruz, will speak for the first time in a television interview about the murder of his girlfriend at the Fort Hood Military Base facility.
The interview will be part of a special dedicated to the case of the Houston soldier who was hammered to death by another soldier in one of the armory rooms at the base near Killeen, Texas last year.
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Hope the angels take care of you ’til I see you myself… 🕊❤️ pic.twitter .com / qZmHONKX7R
– quan (@trapixxx)
July 5, 2020
In the special, according to ABC News 20 / 20, other soldiers who knew Vanessa will give statements about the case .
One of the soldiers interviewed assures that Vanessa had told him that she did not know felt comfortable around Aaron Robinson, the soldier who allegedly hammered her to death and then tried to hide the body by burning it and burying it near the Lion River.
Vanessa’s boyfriend did not He had given an interview on television, and in the events that took place after Vanessa’s death he stayed away from the media, although on social networks he always showed his ap He heard and shared intimate moments with his fiancée, including a video of Vanessa eating during a dinner they shared.
Robinson allegedly committed suicide after escaping from the military base with a He was shot in the head at the gaze of police officers who were chasing him in the Kileen area after Vanessa’s body was found.
In one of the promotional cuts of the special airing on ABC this Friday 08 June at 8pm CST, Juan asks for the truth to be told and questions the lack of protection for soldiers at Fort Hood.
Juan and Vanessa were engaged a month before his tragic death.
Vanessa’s death has caused the Army to modify its procedures to deal with cases of sexual harassment and other abuses against the military.
Vanessa, according to her relatives, complained that she was being sexually harassed by superiors, something that the Army denied at first instance, but investigations determined after almost a year that indeed the Houston soldier was harassed by one of her superiors.
Robinson’s girlfriend is in jail awaiting trial after she pleaded not guilty to helping Robinson hide the soldier’s body.
