'She stays up all night thinking about what might have happened.'įort Bragg, covering nearly 172,000 acres, is one of the world's largest military complexes, according to its website.
Now Martinez said her family lives in constant pain while they await an explanation on what happened to her brother. Martinez said she was taken aback when she saw the landscape of the island, which is small and has few trees, making it difficult for someone to get lost.
In the days after Roman-Martinez was reported missing, Martinez and her mother, Maria, flew to North Carolina to visit the campsite where he was last seen. 'He started saying that he didn't want to be there he just wanted to come home,' she said.īut she said that he did not sound at all suicidal as they frequently talked about their plans for the future.
Martinez said her brother's attitude toward the Army appeared to darken in the year before his death. Roman-Martinez excelled as a soldier, earning many awards and decorations including the Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Army Service Ribbon and the Army Parachutist Badge. Roman-Martinez's sister Griselda Martinez (pictured together) said her family is still seeking answers to what happened to her brother nearly two months ago Martinez said her brother joined the Army when he was 17 as a way to pay for college, and because he thought it would teach him discipline and responsibility. 'They've asked us not to say anything that might impede the investigation or keep them from arresting someone,' she said. Martinez said officials have not offered the family much information regarding her brother's case and that they've been told not to speak publicly about it. 'My mother and I knew something was wrong.' 'For them to say he left his glasses was a huge red flag,' the victim's sister, Griselda Martinez said. The seven or so other soldiers who were with him told investigators that they last saw him just before midnight, and the next morning they realized that he had vanished without his cellphone, wallet, t-shirt or his glasses. He was officially reported as a missing person in North Carolina on May 22, 2020. Roman-Martinez was a native of Chino, California, and served as a human resource specialist in the 82nd Airborne Division's Headquarters Company, 37th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team. It is not clear if the fourth soldier was Roman-Martinez. on May 22, 2020, to board a ferry in Davis, North Carolina, but omitted the presence of a fourth soldier, according to the charge sheets. Moore.īecerra, Cochell and Landrum all told investigators that they left the island at 3 a.m. The manner of his death is listed as a homicide, but no one has been charged with his death.Ĭourt records state that seven soldiers who were the last to see Roman-Martinez alive are all charged with conspiracy and failure to obey a direct order or regulation related to travel during a travel ban, The Fayetteville Observer reported.Ĭiting court documents, the soldiers identified by the newspaper are: Specials Juan Avila, Alex R. Roman-Martinez's severed head washed up six days later, but his body was never recovered. Specialist Enrique Roman-Martinez Eight was last seen by the other seven soldiers assigned to the 37th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division during their outing to Cape Lookout National Seashore in North Carolina over Memorial Day weekend on May 22, 2020. Seven North Carolina-based soldiers who were camping with a Fort Bragg paratrooper whose partial remains were found along the coast in 2020 are facing courts-martial for conspiracy.
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