Fort Hood soldier Ana Basalduaruiz died by suicide: household

Army investigators have found no foul play throughout the dying of Fort Hood soldier Ana Basalduaruiz, reportedly telling her household that she died by suicide — after she complained to her mom and father about being sexually harassed by her superior and others.

The 21-year-old battle engineer was pronounced lifeless Monday — decrease than three years after the brutal murder of Vanessa Guillen, who had moreover endured alleged sexual harassment sooner than being bludgeoned with a hammer and butchered.

The Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID), which has been making an attempt into Basalduaruiz’s dying, talked about Thursday that “no foul play is evident.”

“Army CID will continue to conduct a thorough investigation and gather all evidence and facts to ensure they discover exactly what transpired,” officers acknowledged. “Information related to any possible harassment will be addressed and investigated fully.”

During an emotional interview with Telemundo News, Basalduaruiz’s mom and father talked about they’ve been knowledgeable by Fort Hood brass that their daughter died by suicide.

Alejandra Ruiz Zarco, the soldier’s mother, knowledgeable the Spanish-language info outlet from her home in Mexico that Basalduaruiz had complained about being sexually harassed by her superior and totally different colleagues on the underside.

“She told me, ‘mom, everyone wants me to sleep with them, but they are a—holes,’” Ruiz Zarco talked about.

In their closing phone dialog on March 8, Ruiz Zarco talked about her daughter sounded deeply upset and confided in her that her life was in a state of turmoil.

“She told me that she was very sad,” the mom recalled, “that things were not as normal as I thought, that she couldn’t tell me much, but that there was going to be a moment when we were going to be together and she could say everything.”

The heartbroken mom added that in that dialog, her 21-year-old daughter knowledgeable her that she desperately wished to see her and hug her.

“And she wanted me to hug her a lot, like when she was little,” Ruiz Zarco shared.

Basalduaruiz was a Mexican-born naturalized US citizen who joined the Army in 2020, nevertheless her navy teaching was postponed for a 12 months as a result of COVID.

She had served with the primary Cavalry Division in Fort Hood for 15 months and was scheduled to complete her contract in August, talked about her father, Baldo Basaldua, of California.  

The dad knowledgeable Telemundo News that sooner than her dying, Basalduaruiz knowledgeable him that “she was no longer comfortable, that her whole life was wrong, that she wanted to die.”

The man closing spoke to his daughter closing Saturday. She then stopped responding to his texts, and by Monday Basaldua’s messages have been not reaching his daughter’s phone.

“I went to look for her [satellite] location and then it appeared that she was like in a park inside the base and that was it,” the daddy talked about. “I just put a message to her that the one who was going to die was going to be me, of anguish.”

Later that exact same day, Army representatives confirmed up on the restaurant the place Basaldua works and gave him the devastating info.

Lucy Del Gaudio, an advocate for women throughout the navy who’s performing as a spokesperson for Basalduaruiz’ household, knowledgeable CBS News that the Army so far has “stonewalled” their inquires in regards to the youthful soldier’s alleged sexual harassment.

“The Army is doing what they always do, not saying anything,” Del Gaudio talked about, together with that Basalduaruiz’s relations are demanding options.

Balsaduaruiz’s dying comes decrease than three years after the murder of 20-year-old soldier Vanessa Guillen after she, too, had complained about undesirable sexual advances at Fort Hood.

Guillen was bludgeoned to dying with a hammer, dismembered and buried in a shallow grave in April 2020.

Her suspected killer, 20-year-old Spc. Aaron Robinson, shot himself in June of that 12 months as police tried to arrest him.

Guillen’s slaying sparked a social media movement and at last led to disciplinary movement being taken in direction of 21 officers and non-commissioned officers on the troubled base.

An neutral analysis panel tasked with making an attempt into larger than two dozen soldier deaths at Fort Hood that handed off in 2020 alone found that the navy arrange’s leaders weren’t appropriately addressing sexual assault and harassment, drug use and totally different points affecting personnel.

The analysis moreover found that the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division — the an identical firm that found no foul play in Balsaduaruiz’s dying — was understaffed, overwhelmed and filled with inexperienced investigators.