Officers from the Bell County Sheriff's Office in Texas found the body of a man Monday outside the fence of the Fort Hood military base, a site where at least 39 soldiers were killed or disappeared in 2020.
The discovery was made around 10:30 a.m. after staff on a Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) railroad company reported that they had seen a body dumped along the tracks, three-quarters of a mile west of South Fort Hood Street, as reported by local television station KWTX-TV.
Authorities said
the man's causes of death are still under investigation.
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Justice of the Peace Bill Cook was the one who pronounced him dead and ordered an autopsy to be done at the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office.
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The Sheriff's office said in a statement that "
the deceased has been identified, but the family has not been notified
."
The man apparently had no connection to Fort Hood.
At least 39 soldiers were killed or disappeared at the Fort Hood base in 2020. File photo.
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On Sunday night, base officials also reported that they found Jennifer Sewell, a Texas base soldier who had been missing since October 7, the day she did not report to her activities or respond to calls. calls from superiors or relatives, as reported by the NBC station in Dallas.
Sewell is with his family, according to authorities at the military base in a statement.
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Sewell was the last soldier to have disappeared from the base.
In 2020,
at least 39 soldiers were killed or disappeared,
including 13 who committed suicide.
The case that targeted the base was that of Vanessa Guillén.
The Army admitted a few months ago that the 20-year-old Latina soldier was sexually harassed by a superior who made her life impossible at the base, and ended up being killed by another soldier who had also harassed another soldier.
