“The Only Thing I Knew How to Do Was Kill People”: Inside the Rash of Unexplained Deaths at Fort...

The day after Guillen disappeared, Private Gavin Chambers, 21, died on base. On April 29, it was Private Joshua Barnwell, 19. Sergeant Brad Reynolds, 37, killed himself on May 16. On May 18, Brandon Rosecrans’s burning Jeep was discovered in a hilly suburb east of Fort Hood. Rosecrans, shot four times, was found three miles from his vehicle. The coming months brought the suicides of Staff Sergeant Richard Harrington, 45, and then Specialist James Green, 23. And on June 19, skeletal remains were found in a field behind a cul-de-sac of a residential neighborhood in Killeen.