{"id":35933,"date":"2025-03-13T16:18:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/sister-of-army-soldier-murdered-at-texas-base-floats-potential-congressional-challenge-to-rep-al-green\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T16:18:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:18:37","slug":"sister-of-army-soldier-murdered-at-texas-base-floats-potential-congressional-challenge-to-rep-al-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/sister-of-army-soldier-murdered-at-texas-base-floats-potential-congressional-challenge-to-rep-al-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister of Army soldier murdered at Texas base floats potential congressional challenge to Rep Al Green"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sister of Vanessa Guill\u00e9n,<\/a> a U.S. Army soldier murdered and dismembered at what was formerly called Fort Hood in Texas, is floating a potential congressional challenge to Rep. Al Green, D-Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mayra Guill\u00e9n said she was considering running against Green after watching his outbursts during President Donald Trump’s address to Congress last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After watching Green “disrespect” not only the president, “but our district, state and country, I believe it\u2019s time for me to get into the fight like I did for my sister Vanessa Guillen!” Mayra Guill\u00e9n wrote on X on March 6. “It\u2019s time to end the propaganda displayed by these politicians, and time to help support [Trump] and his amazing [administration] to Make America Great Again! Al Green I\u2019m coming for your seat.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

FAMILY OF MURDERED FORT HOOD SOLDIER VANESSA GUILLEN FILES $35M LAWSUIT AGAINST U.S. ARMY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Local outlets, including the Houston Chronicle, picked up her potential congressional run in reports published Wednesday but said Guill\u00e9n has yet to file the appropriate paperwork for a campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to Guill\u00e9n for comment Thursday but did not immediately hear back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Green has represented his heavily blue Houston congressional district since 2005 and was unopposed in last year’s election. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., ordered the Sergeant at Arms to remove Green from the chamber when he repeatedly shouted over and wagged his cane at Trump during the president’s first congressional address back in office, and Republicans later voted to censure the long-time Democratic congressman.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2021, Mayra Guill\u00e9n founded the “I am Vanessa Guill\u00e9n Foundation,” an advocacy group intended to give a voice to survivors of sexual violence in the military.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

MURDERED FORT HOOD SOLDIER VANESSA GUILLEN DESERVES SAME RESPECT AS GEORGE FLOYD, BIDEN MUST ACT, FAMILY SAYS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Vanessa Guill\u00e9n, a 20-year-old soldier stationed at Fort Hood, was declared missing in April 2020 from the base outside Killeen, Texas, prompting a months-long search.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Authorities eventually said she was murdered and dismembered in an armory room by a fellow soldier, Army Spc. Aaron Robinson, who died by suicide on July 1, 2020, when authorities were closing in on him a day after Guill\u00e9n’s remains were found.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The only person criminally charged in Guill\u00e9n’s death was Robinson’s girlfriend, Cecily Aguilar,<\/a> who authorities accused of helping him mutilate and hide the body. Aguilar was sentenced to 30 years in prison in August 2023 for accessory to murder.<\/p>\n

Guill\u00e9n\u2019s family has said they believe she was sexually harassed during her time at the Texas military base. While Army officials<\/a> have said they do not believe Robinson harassed Guill\u00e9n, they admitted in a report a year later that Guill\u00e9n was harassed by another soldier at the base.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then-U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said during a visit to the Texas base that it had one of the highest rates of murder, sexual assault and harassment in the Army, later adding that the patterns of violence were a direct result of “leadership failures.” State and federal lawmakers passed legislation in 2021 honoring Guill\u00e9n that removed some authority from commanders and gave survivors more options to report abuse and harassment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Army officials disciplined 21 commissioned and non-commissioned officers in connection with Guill\u00e9n\u2019s death. Fort Hood was renamed to Fort Cavazos in May 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sister of Vanessa Guill\u00e9n, a U.S. Army soldier murdered and dismembered at what was formerly called Fort Hood in Texas, is floating a potential congressional challenge to Rep. Al Green, D-Texas.\u00a0 Mayra Guill\u00e9n said she was considering running against Green after watching his outbursts during President Donald Trump’s address to Congress last week.\u00a0 After … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}