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LULAC Questions Why Fort Hood Investigators “Didn’t Care” About Missing Latino
Soldier Found Dead This Week
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Nation’s Oldest and Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Says Claims of
Inaction In Disappearance of Private Gregory Wedel-Morales Are Similar to Those
of Vanessa Guillen’s Case
Washington, DC - The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) said
Thursday that claims by the family of a Latino soldier whose remains were found
Sunday ten months after he disappeared are the same as charges raised by the
mother of Vanessa Guillen and demonstrate a pattern of indifference by Army
officials.
“Private Morales was just two weeks away from completing six years of service in
the Army yet Fort Hood investigators ignored his family’s pleas for help for
months and classified him as a deserter instead of doing their job. His brother
said military investigators didn’t care.” stated Domingo Garcia, National
President. “It doesn’t make sense that a young man who was just days away from
getting an honorable discharge and his military benefits would all of a sudden
just disappear without a trace. Yet, that’s exact;y what the Army used as the
excuse to do nothing for months, the same as they did in Vanessa’s case,” he
added.
Morales’ remains were found Sunday night in a wooded field less than five miles
from the base. Investigators received a tip after a reward of up to $25,000 was
offered for any information leading to his whereabouts. An autopsy has been
ordered into what caused Morales’ death and military officials now say the
soldier was a victim of foul play. On Monday, Army investigators for the first
time acknowledged foul play was also behind the disappearance of Pvt. Vanessa
Guillen, more than two months after her family reported her missing and asked for
the Army to help them locate her.
“LULAC is demanding that the Army at the highest levels make Vanessa’s case a
priority and stop making excuses for their inaction the past two months,” says
Analuisa Carrillo-Tapia, Director of Texas LULAC District 17. “We’re not going to
allow what happened in soldier Morales’ case to happen here. Vanessa deserves to
be found and the person or persons responsible need to be arrested before they do
this to someone else. LULAC is going to stay on this case no matter what until we
get results. Then, we want a Congressional hearing into what is going on at Fort
Hood and other Army installations where female soldiers have told us they too are
being sexually harassed, just like Vanessa reported just before she went
missing,” said Tapia.
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About LULAC
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the nation’s largest and
oldest civil rights volunteer-based organization that empowers Hispanic Americans
and builds strong Latino communities. Headquartered in Washington, DC, with 1,000
councils around the United States and Puerto Rico, LULAC’s programs, services and
advocacy address the most important issues for Latinos, meeting critical needs of
today and the future. For more information, visit www.LULAC.org [ [link removed] ] .
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