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the hispanic soldier Ana Fernanda Basaldua20, who was found dead in a maintenance bay at the Fort Hood military base He had planned not to renew his contract with the Army when it expires in August and he planned to return to Long Beach, California, with his father.
In an interview with Telemundo, two very close friends of the young woman born in Michoacán, Mexico, told that the problems Basaldua had had inside the military base -harassment by a superior and an attempt to suffocate a soldier- they forced her to make a decision that he never came to think of when he decided to enlist in the Army.
“He wanted to end his time here well and already leave it behind and start life. I told him ‘if you need anything, call me, call me, call me. You are not alone here,” said a military friend of the young woman.
Before August, Basaldua and her best friend told the same outlet that the two planned to meet in California next month.
“I know that she was going through things, but she was going to go to California with me next month. She told me that she had bought her flight for March 31 to go to California,” said her friend who serves as a military man at the Fort Knox base in Tennessee.
And added that the young soldier “I was happy that we were going to see each other. And at last she was going to go to California ”.
The aforementioned media reported that Basaldua’s friend showed them messages where they could read that the Mexican by birth was talking about her travel plans and they could even read that He had planned to request a permit to take over the military base from March 31 to April 15.
Until now from Fort Hood they have reported that Ana Fernanda Basaldua apparently committed suicide on March 13; The young woman’s family said that they were informed that her daughter was found with a rope around her neck, but they want to know what exactly happened because days ago they felt her despair and sadness.
Fernanda Basaldua’s mother told Telemundo Noticias that his daughter had confessed to him that she had been a victim of bullying and that she just wanted to go home so that he “would hug her like when she was little.”
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