Khawam said Robinson hid Guillens body in a Pelican case a hard-sided, watertight storage in common use in the military stored in the armoury room before later dumping her body near the Leon River. Later that night, Army investigators questioned Aguilar, they say she admitted that Robinson had told her he killed Vanessa Guillen and that she saw her remains in the tough box that he had carted out of the arms room, where he told her he killed Guillen. Aaron David Robinson "I asked, 'Have you seen Guillen?' "I knew something was wrong because I'd check her social media," Cruz said. She was caring and respectful and always used to joke about everything. Two days later, the military opened up a separate inquiry looking into allegations that Guillen was sexually harassed by a supervisor. Burned remains of a plastic tote or tough box were found in an area where Robinsons phone pinged. "Our agents are working very closely with the Armed Forces Medical Examiner to expedite identification of the remains," Phelps said. "Nothing really can bring her back at all but as long as we know how to honor her name and how to make this change, I feel like that would be some closure for us," Mayra Guillen said. Bell County Jail records online show Aguilar was charged Wednesday with tampering or fabricating physical evidence with the intent to impair a human corpse, a second degree felony. Guillns family, along with Khawam, met with Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday. Landy said that because Robinson was the last person to be seen with her, a superior asked Robinson "in front of everybody" about their last interaction. HOUSTON -- Vanessa Guillen will forever be 20 years old, engaged but will never be married. According to court records, Robinson admitted to Aguilar that he moved Guillens body from Fort Hood to a remote site in Bell County. Cecily Aguilar, 22, of Killeen, faces one count of conspiracy to tamper with evidence in the April 22 disappearance of Army Specialist Vanessa Guillen, federal prosecutors in Texas' western district said in a statement. On April 22, a witness saw Guillen leave the armory where she was working to visit a separate armory controlled by Robinson, the complaint stated. Robinson harassed her.". Who doesnt fight?. Aaron David Robinson, beat Guillen to death with a hammer the morning of April 22. Robinson was confined to his barracks around the time of the discovery, but he fled and died by suicide, authorities said. Aaron David Robinson, 20, beat Guillen to death with a hammer on April 22, 2020 in Fort Hood, Texas. That brought me a bit of peace to my heart. The two worked together to burn the body, dismember it, mix the parts with concrete and bury the remains in three holes, the filing added. Goodnight,'" he said. On the other hand, murals aren't made for just anyone. Guillen, that's not to say on the morning of her murder that he wasn't in the in the act of assaulting or harassing her. Local law enforcement later found Robinson on East Rancier Avenue, east of Fort Hood near North Twin Creek Drive, where he pulled a gun and shot himself when confronted by Killeen police early Wednesday. Its impossible.. Army investigators repeatedly denied detaining any other suspects. The witnesses watched him load the box into his vehicle and drive away. Phelps said the Army has no credible information or reports that Guillen was sexually assaulted. At 6 p.m, Hightower says he went looking for her. Robinson consented to a search of his cell phone the next day. "[I was] angry and sad at the same time, because he was in our face the whole time," Hightower said. According to a criminal complaint that details what investigators believe happened to Guillen, Aguilar said she drove with Robinson to the Leon River where they tried to dispose of the body. KILLEEN, Texas (CBS) -- A Calumet City soldier was the main suspect in the murder of fellow soldier Vanessa Guillen, CBS 2 has learned. Vanessa Guillen. Guillen's loved ones say she had always been a fitness fanatic. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. Unidentifed remains believed by family members to be those of Guillen were recovered this week along the Leon River and are undergoing forensic testing. Gloria Guillen said that after learning of her daughters death, she was brought back to her prayer to God when Vanessa was just 15 days old. Vanessa Guillen also spoke about it with her friends. Aguilar was charged later in the afternoon with one count of conspiracy to tamper with evidence. I would truly wish to have her here than any of this, but this is where we are today.. Robinson, who had been in the Army since 2017, worked in the same Regimental Engineer Squadron as Guillen. Gloria Guillen said she saw her daughters health progressively deteriorate over the months leading up to her disappearance, saying her normally muscular and vibrant daughter became thin and reserved. After the Army found her remains and confirmed her death on July 6, McCarthy still did not call Guillns family, but tweeted that his thoughts and prayers were with them. The Guillens pleas for help spread nationally after #IAmVanessaGuillen went viral on social media this month. Fort Hood soldier slain, dismembered on post, family attorney Robinson called Aguilar several times throughout the night and the calls after midnight were for lengths greater than one minute., Aguilar later said in a second interview that she did leave her home and took a drive to a park in Belton, Texas to look at the stars.. "I didn't wanna think the worst, but [I was experiencing] a lotta panic.". Many of the details of how investigators say Guillen was killed and dismembered were first reported by Army Times on Thursday. Aguilar's lawyers have filed a motion to throw out the entire case and another motion to suppress the statements officers say she made. At that time, I suspected something was up. Her disappearance happened at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, while "everybody's sheltering," he said, so "we had very few soldiers moving about.". / CBS Chicago. Justice will be done.. Have I ever liked her? Before entering journalism, Kyle served in U.S. Air Force Special Tactics and deployed in 2014 to Paktika Province, Afghanistan, and Baghdad, Iraq. The inspection will assess whether the command climate at Hood is supportive of soldiers reporting sexual harassment and seek to identify any potential systemic issues within the program at Hood, Efflandt said. According to investigators, he even texted her links to news articles about the remains discovered near the Leon River. Army investigators provided the family with time stamps of when Robinson checked in and out of the armory roomApril 22, the day Guillen was last seen, and when Guillen texted Robinson to let him know she was outside and needed to be let into the building. On April 30, 2021, the Army announced that it had found Guillen had been sexually harassed by a superior, but that superior was not Robinson. The family of a slain U.S. Army soldier is suing the Department of the Army, saying authorities failed to protect her from her killer. Khawam said the family told her that Guillen had planned to file a harassment complaint against Robinson the day after she was killed, and On the eve of the one-year anniversary of Vanessa Guillen's murder, the Army dedicated a gate to her memory at Fort Hood. He told investigators that he and Guillen exchanged paperwork for a .50 caliber machine gun that needed to be serviced and she left the arms room. Now, the Guillen family is planning for a funeral this month. On May 18, nearly a month after Vanessa Guillen's disappearance, investigators spoke to two witnesses who said they saw Robinson exiting the arms room on April 22 with a large case called a tough box, which they say he loaded into his car before driving away. Nothing. Location data from Robinsons phone showed that at nearly 2 a.m. on April 23, the device was in the vicinity of a bridge along the Leon River. The soldier worked in an adjacent building from where Specialist Guillen worked, said Army Criminal Investigation Command Special Agent Damon Phelps. McCarthy first tweeted about Guilln in late June two months after her disappearance, and after Guillns murder began gathering national awareness. So, I feel like they should've came to that conclusion way earlier than they had. Guillens sister, Mayra, previously told NBC's "Dateline" that Guillen never identified the person who allegedly harassed her and never reported the incidents to the Armys sexual harassment and prevention program. Robinson texted Aguilar pictures of news articles that reported about how law enforcement had found human remains near the Leon River, later saying over the phone, baby they found pieces, they found pieces, the complaint reads. You know how they say no one is perfect? Lupe asked. Robinson fatally shot himself July 1 when authorities confronted him off post,Killeen policesaid. And she said no. She reports, writes and produces stories for NBC Latino and NBCNews.com. I know that this is not going to bring back my daughter, Gloria said between tears. Those wretches took her life away. They just kept trying to pin it on me or Landy," Hightower said. Several media outlets on Thursday, however, identified the woman as Cecily Anne Aguilar, a 22-year-old Killeen resident. It's her last known communication. Authorities said that 20-year old Aaron David Robinson of Calumet City pulled a gun and shot himself as police were trying to make contact with him on Wednesday. Why? The Army's Chief of Staff for the U.S. Army Forces Command.Maj. Landy said he knew word had gotten out about Vanessa Guillen's disappearance when he saw the military police at Fort Hood the next morning. Army investigators believe Guillen, a Texas soldier missing since April, was killed by another soldier on the Texas base where they served, the attorney for the missing soldier's family said Thursday. Aguilar helped law enforcement locate Robinson in the city of Killeen. Pablo Saezsaid, according to CNN on Saturday. 'I Am Vanessa Guillen': Who Was Aaron Robinson and What suspected foul play related to her disappearance, Lawyer of missing Texas soldier's family: 'We believe her remains were found', was last seen at a parking lot in Fort Hood, her car keys, barracks room key, identification card and wallet, added an additional $25,000 to the reward, inquiry looking into allegations that Guillen was sexually harassed, Sister of missing Texas solider speaks about meeting military suspect, Sexual assault in the U.S. military has increased. "We suspected him. This heinous act caused her blood to be splashed all over the armory room, Khawam said in a statement to the Army Times. Well, thanks to my girl, thanks to my girl, all those girls are coming to light, all those rapes, all those rapes, all those harassments, Gloria Guillen said. A Killeen, Texas, woman assisted her soldier boyfriend in disposing of a missing soldiers body after he killed her with a hammer inside an armory on Fort Hood, according to a criminal complaint filed in the Western District Court of Texas. "The murderer sexually harassed her and then killed her," the Whistleblower Law Firm attorney, told Military.com in a statement. After the sexual harassment reports surfaced, many service members have used the hashtag #IAmVanessaGuillen to share their experiences with sexual assault and harassment on social media. Meanwhile, Natalie Khawam, an attorney for the Guillen family claimed to the Army Times in a report published Thursday that Guillen was killed by Robinson while she was on duty in the armory room at Fort Hood. Morales, a 24-year-old who also used the last name Wedel before his marriage, was last heard from on Aug. 20, 2019. She hadn't been responding to texts or calls from family, either, and as day turned to night, Cruz and Vanessa's sister, Mayra Guillen, drove to Fort Hood. Vanessa Guillen, who has been missing from the Texas post since April. The League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation's oldest Latino civil rights organization that has been helping the Guillen family, added an additional $25,000 to the reward the following day. Every minute that passes is killing me inside, slowly.". Vanessa Guillen: Netflix Documentary Spotlights Soldier's "He said he didn't talk to her while he was in there. Investigators say Vanessa Guilln was bludgeoned to death with a hammer inside an armory at Fort Hood by fellow soldier Aaron David Robinson on April 22 but Vanessa Guillen bludgeoned to death on Fort Hood base, family Slain Fort Hood soldier was sexually harassed, but not by Newspapers Limited, 8 Spadina Avenue, 10th Floor, Toronto, ON M5V 0S8. Guillen," Phelps said. We've received your submission. Loved ones of Spc. "She told me, 'I love you. "It's so important because it will bring the help my sister never obtained, it will bring the voice my sister never had.". The pile went 3 feet into the ground and the dirt was fresh, but investigators did not find any human remains, said Tim Miller, who helped lead the search with his organization EquuSearch. US Army officials on Thursday identified a suspect in the disappearance of missing Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen as an attorney for the victims family claimed that the same perpetrator attacked Guillen with a hammer and dismembered her body with a machete. McCarthy on July 10 announced after meeting with Democrat Rep. Sylvia Garcia (TX) and the activist group League of United Latin American Citizens that he has directed an independent, comprehensive reviewof the command climate and culture at Fort Hood, as well as the surrounding military community.. At 10:23 a.m., Guillen sent a text message confirming the serial number of a machine gun. Spc. ", "On my way there, I was just crying because I couldn't understand it," Mayra Guillen said. Reports of suicide are The Calumet City native entered the Army in October 2017 and was a combat engineer. Maj. Gen. Scott Efflandt, III Corps deputy commanding general, announced during the press conference that the Inspector General's Office will examine the implementation of Fort Hood's sexual harassment and prevention program, assess whether the "command climate" is supportive of soldiers reporting sexual assault or harassment and "identify any potential systemic issues. Robinson harassed Spc. "They just told me, 'We did find the partial human remains.' The inspections goal is to examine how the program runs and whether leadership is supportive of soldiers reporting sexual harassment and assault, officials said in a statement Wednesday. Robinson and Aguilar uncovered the remains, removed them and burned them again along with their gloves and hairnets. However, officials did say the woman was a civilian and the estranged wife of a former Fort Hood soldier. Her fianc Juan Cruz, who proposed to her in March 2020, said that she had remarkable strength -- so much so that she could carry him on her shoulders. ", Hightower told Landy that Vanessa was missing. Just why?" Cruz said he thinks often about his late fiance. A review of the call logs showed Robinson contacted Aguilar multiple times on the night Guillen disappeared. After police issued a Be On the Lookout (BOLO) alert for Robinson in July, Robinson fled and killed himself as police approached. Dismembered human remains believed to be Guillen's were found in a shallow grave about 30 miles east of the Fort Hood base this week. President Trump even found time to meet and speak with this family and yet McCarthy is still doing press conferences without a single call to this poor family whose daughter they sent to serve in his Army, Khawam added. "That's the regiment Vanessa used to work, and everyone that passes through that gate will see my sister's name, my sister's picture and remind themselves about how sexual harassment and assault has to be taken seriously, and about the way she was murdered because no one deserves that.". A box with wheels and handles was already there when she arrived. He didnt leave for the rest of the night, except to use a government computer to enroll in training, according to this account. Vanessa Guillen of Fort Hood was going to be a bride. At the time, there was not a missing soldier protocol in place. Authorities argued Robinson wheeled Guillens body out of an arms room with a large tough box, and got the help of his girlfriend Cecily Ann Aguilar, 24, in burning the body. Authorities on Thursday said 20-year-old Spc. Vanessa Guillen Army investigators told the family they were doing everything they could to search for Guillen on and off the post in the weeks after her disappearance, but they provided no details or updates, the family said. This is the lawsuit. Company, 3rd Cavalry Regiment at the time Guillen, a fellow 3rd Cavalry soldier, disappeared April 22. Cruz saw the woman he planned to marry for the last time on April 19, 2020, three days before she went missing. He was scheduled to be discharged from the Army within a couple of days of his disappearance, Fort Hood officials have said. "I [was] going to the gas stations, to stores, to the [bus stops] posting missing [signs] like [for] the love of my life. pic.twitter.com/mWwjiJx4ly. Daryl Fields, spokesman for the U.S. attorneys office,said he could not provide answers to the list of questions: Thank you for your latest inquiry, but our office is not commenting on this investigation beyond the information provided in the federal criminal complaint., She didnt have to go to war to die, she had to die here at the hands of those wretches, Gloria Guillen said. But it wasn't too much I can do.". Guillen, 20, were found near the Leon River in Bell County in late June,nearly three months after she was last heard from while working inside an armory room at Fort Hood. Landy said it was frustrating that investigators were seemingly not suspicious of Robinson. Vanessa Guillen bludgeoned to death by fellow soldier, attorney Lupe Guilllen, 16, Vanessas sister, said the fight is not over until the Army stops telling lies and gives the family answers. However, they were coworkers, he said. Khawam said the family revealed those allegations to investigators late last month. We were always fighting, but thats sisterhood. I Am Vanessa Guillen: Everything You Need to Know - Netflix Robinson walked Aguilar over to the woods and opened up the box to show her a dead woman inside. Hes going to tell her, Honey, I killed her for you because she was going to report us. Hes not going to say, Honey, I was sexually harassing Vanessa again and killed her. . Follow Breitbart Newss Kristina Wong on Twitteror on Facebook. -- Matthew Cox can be reached at matthew.cox@military.com. The press conference is to discuss the Armys efforts to address the recent events at Fort Hood, according to a press release. [emailprotected]. And there was none," Martin said. Nearly 40,000 infantrymen, cavalrymen, tankers, engineers, mechanics and health care professionals work at Fort Hood, which is nicknamed Great Place.. She added that McCarthy has scheduled a press conference for Thursday with media at Fort Hood, Texas, but has not even contacted the Guilln family to let them know it was happening. HOUSTON Gloria Guillens fingers clenched her Rosary as she painfully described one of her last memories of her daughter the moment the proud mother learned Army Spc.
