COMING
COMING IN
COMING IN TONIGHT ABOUT MISSING FORT HOOD SOLDIER -- SGT
ELDER FERNANDES.
ARMY OFFICIALS
SAY HE WAS LAST ON
SEEN MONDAY IN
KILLEEN.
HIS MOTHER SAYS
HE WAS RECENTLY
DISCHARGED FROM
DARNELL HOSPITAL
FOR REASONS THAT
REMAIN UNCLEAR --
SIX NEWS
REPORTER JASMIN
CALDWELL IS LIVE
NEAR FORT HOOD
WITH THE LATEST
INFORMATION.
LESLIE--SGT. ELDER
FERNANDES HAD
BEEN IN THE ARMY
FOR ABOUT THREE
YEARS - HIS MOTHER
SAYS HE RECENTLY
BECAME UNHAPPY
WITH HIS MILITARY
CAREER, BUT NOW
HE'S MISSING AND THE
SAME GROUP THAT
HELPED IN THE
SEARCH FOR VANESSA
GUILLEN IS BACK AND
HELPING IN THIS
CASE,
CASE, TOO.
TONIGHT
TONIGHT HELP IS NEEDED TO FIND SGT. ELDER FERNANDES.
KILLEEN POLICE SAY
HE WAS LAST SEEN BY
HIS STAFF SERGEANT
MONDAY AFTERNOON
WHEN HE WAS
DROPPED OFF AT HIS
HOME IN THE 2700
BLOCK OF
WOODLANDS DRIVE.
FERNANDES MOTHER
AILIEEN FLEW IN FROM
BOSTON TO LOOK FOR
HER SON. SHE SAYS
ITS NOT LIKE HIM TO
UP AND DISAPPEAR.
WE'VE BEEN TALKING
SINCE LAST TUESDAY.
HE'S BEEN IN THE
HOSPITAL SINCE
TUESDAY. WE'VE BEEN
TALKING EVERYDAY,
TWO THREE TIMES A
DAY AND FOR HIM TO
GET OUT OF THE
HOSPITAL
HOSPITAL AND NO WHERE TO BE FOUND. ITS SO MUCH
CONCERN, WORRY,
ITS A NIGHTMARE
RIGHT NOW.
ITS UNCLEAR WHY
FERNANDES WAS
ADMITTED INTO THE
HOSPITAL. TODAY THE
ARMY CRIMINAL
INVESTIGATION
DIVISION RELEASED A
STATEMENT SAYING
FERNANDES "MAY
HAVE LEFT FORT
HOOD ON HIS OWN
ACCORD" FOLLOWING
INFORMATION
GATHERED FROM
OTHER SOLDIERS.
THEY SAY HIS VEHICLE
WAS FOUND ON POST
IN HIS UNIT'S PARKING
LOT.
HIS MOTHER SAYS
RECENTLY HE SEEMED
UNHAPPY.
"LATELY IN THE LAST
TWO MONTHS OR
THREE MONTHS
ELDER STARTED NOT
BEING HAPPY IN THE
ARMY."
FERNANDES WAS LAST
SEEN WEARING BLACK
ARMY P-T SHORTS, A
T-SHIRT AND RED
ATHLETIC SHOES.
FORT HOOD SAY
THEY'VE COMPLETED
A SEARCH OF THE
ENTIRE DIVISION
AREA, WHICH
INCLUDES MOTOR
POOLS, PARKING LOTS
AND HEADQUARTERS
BUILDINGS. THEY
EVEN PUT OUT A BOLO
FOR THE SOLDIER.
NOW - TEXAS
EQUUSEARCHTHE
SAME GROUP WHO
HELPED FIND THE
REMAINS OF VANESSA
GUILLEN BACK IN JUNE
--ARE JOINING THE
EFFORT OF FORT
HOOD AND KILLEEN
POLICE - AN EFFORT
HIS MOTHER IS
HOPING IS NOT IN
VAIN.
"THEY'VE BEEN
TELLING ME THEY
HAVE PEOPLE IN THE
FIELD. RIGHT NOW
THEY TELL ME THEY
ARE SEARCHING AND
THEY ARE DOING THIS
AND DOING THAT. BUT
TO ME NOTHING IS
FAST ENOUGH UNTIL
THEY CAN FIND MY
SON ELDER
FERNANDES
FERNANDES
TEXAS
TEXAS EQUUSEARCH FLEW IN TODAY TO HELP LOOK
FOR FERNANDES.
NATALIE KHAWAM --
THE ATTORNEY FOR
THE FAMILY OF FORT
HOOD
HOOD SOLDIER VANESSA GUILLEN -- WILL ALSO
REPRESENT
TODAY TO HELP LOOK
FOR FERNANDES.
NATALIE KHAWAM --
THE
THE ATTORNEY FOR THE FAMILY OF FORT HOOD SOLDIER
VANESSA GUILLEN --
WILL ALSO
REPRESENT
FERNANDES' FAMILY.
REPORTING LIVE IN
KILLEEN JC SIX NEWS.
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