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US Army Women Are More Likely to Be Killed by Army Men Than by War
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- Women in the Army Are More Likely to Be Killed by Fellow Soldiers Than Enemy Combatants
- Roque wasn’t in a war zone, and the killer wasn’t an enemy combatant.
- “Even now, I still can t believe it,” her mother, Ana Roque, told The Intercept. “That murderers could exist in one of the supposedly safest places in the country.”
Women in the Army Are More Likely to Be Killed by Fellow Soldiers Than Enemy Combatants
Share Copy link Share on Facebook Share on Bluesky Share on X Share on Linked In Share on Whats App Twenty-three-year-old Sarah Roque had been in the Army for just over four years when a man fatally shot her in the head.
Roque wasn’t in a war zone, and the killer wasn’t an enemy combatant. It was Wooster Rancy, a fellow soldier stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, who had gone to Walmart for trash bags on the last day Roque was seen alive in October 2024. The Army found her body in a dumpster behind the barracks.
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