Military authorities from the base of Fort Hood, Texas, asked for help to find
a Latino soldier missing for five days
.
Specialist Abram Salas II did not show up for work last Wednesday, June 23, authorities from the Emergency Services Directorate said on Saturday in a statement in which they shared photos of the Hispanic man.
Hispanic soldier Abram Salas, stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, Fort Hood
Neither the authorities nor the soldier's family have known of his whereabouts since last Wednesday, so they
are asking for help from the public to locate him
.
Salas, a native of El Paso, Texas, allegedly left the Fort Hood facility without giving an explanation to his superiors.
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The Army said he
could be driving a white
four-door
Dodge Dart
with Texas license plate NFP-2796.
The Hispanic soldier was described as 5 feet 6 inches tall, with black hair and brown eyes.
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"The initial investigation has determined that Salas left for unknown reasons of his own free will and there is reliable and credible information that he may be in the San Antonio area," the military authorities detailed in their message.
They added that Army officers are in constant contact with Salas' unit and his family to ensure their health and safety.
On the left, a soldier maintains a tank at Fort Hood.
On the right, the tower with the motto of the military base, "a great place." Damià Bonmatí
Fort Hood, the largest military base in the United States, which houses more than 45,000 soldiers on an 87,000-hectare estate south of Austin, is the same place where Latin soldier Vanessa Guillén disappeared in April 2020.
The Army admitted a couple of months ago that the 20-year-old soldier was the victim of "sexual harassment and abuse" by a superior at the military base before being killed, according to the internal investigation made public this Friday, which reveals some of the unknowns of the case.
The report further revealed that the alleged killer, Aaron Robinson, had sexually harassed another military officer.
Last week, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for the first time declared his support for a new way of investigating allegations of sexual harassment within the Army, in which the responsibility for seeking evidence and pressing charges would fall squarely on independent prosecutors. and no longer in the higher ranks.
With information from Efe.