The sister of Vanessa Guillén, A soldier of the US Army killed and explained about what was previously called Fort Hood in Texas, drives a potential conference challenge for Rep. Al Green, D-Texas.
Mayra Guillén said she was considering running Green after viewing his eruptions during President Donald Trump’s address until the congress last week.
After looking at Green “Lack of Respect”, not only the president “, but also our district, state and land, I believe it is time to get into the fight as I did for my sister Vanessa Guillen!” Mayra Guillén wrote on X on March 6. “It’s time to end the propaganda shown by these politicians, and time to help (Trump) and his amazing (administration) to make America great again! Al Green, I come for your chair.”
Mayra Guillen and Lupe Guillen talk about the Vanessa Guillen Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act, which would move the decision to prosecute serious crimes in the army of the command structure, during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 23, 2021. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty images)
Local points of sale, including the Houston Chronicle, took its potential congress run in reports that were published on Wednesday, but said that Guillén still has to submit the right paperwork for a campaign.
Fox News Digital reached Guillén for comment on Thursday, but did not hear immediately.
Green has been representing his heavy Blue Houston Congressional District since 2005 and was not against last year’s elections. House speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., I ordered the sergeant to remove Green from the Chamber when he repeatedly persuaded and waved his walking stick in Trump during the president’s first congress address, and Republicans later voted to censor the old Democratic conference.
In 2021 Mayra Guillén founded the “I Am Vanessa Guillén Foundation”, an interest group that was intended to give a voice to survivors of Sexual violence in the army.
People pay respect in a mural by Vanessa Guillen, killed a soldier in nearby Fort Hood, on July 6, 2020, in Austin, Texas. (Sergio Flores/Getty images)
Vanessa Guillén, a 20-year-old soldier stationed in Fort Hood, was declared missing in April 2020 from the base outside Killeen, Texas, which caused a month-long search.
Authorities eventually said that she was killed and explained in an arsenlational room by a colleague soldier, Army SPC. Aaron Robinson, who died due to suicide on July 1, 2020, when the authorities approached him a day after the remains of Guillén were found.
The only person who was criminally sued in the death of Guillén was Robinson’s girlfriend, Cecily Aguilar, WHO authorities accused of helping him mutilate and hide the body. In August 2023, Aguilar was sentenced to 30 years in prison for murder accessory.
Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, is calling for President Donald Trump a joint session of the congress in the Capitol in Washington, who appeals to DC on Tuesday 4 March 2025. (Win McNamee/Pool -Photo via AP)
The Guillén family said they believe that she was sexually harassed during her time on the military base of Texas. While Army officials Have said that they did not believe that Robinson Guillén has harassed, they admitted a year later in a report that Guillén was harassed by another soldier at the base.
The then secretary of the army Ryan McCarthy said during a visit to the base of Texas that it had one of the highest percentages of murder, sexual abuse and intimidation in the army, later adding that the patterns of violence were a direct consequence of “leadership failure”. State and federal legislators adopted legislation in 2021 in honor of Guillén who gave any authority from commanders removed and survivors more options to report abuse and intimidation.
Army officials disciplined 21 on commissioned and officers without assignment in connection with the death of Guillén. Fort Hood was renamed Fort Cavazos in May 2023.
The Associated Press has contributed to this report.
