Posted on Jan 9, 2026

Marine Veteran’s Suicide at VA Hospital Parking Lot Raises Alarm on Veteran Mental Health Crisis

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A 33-year-old former Marine, Enrique Ramos Jr., died by suicide on December 4, 2025, in the parking lot of the Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans' Hospital, according to San Antonio police. Officers responded to a 911 call just after 12:45 p.m.; Ramos reportedly told the dispatcher where he was and his intent to take his own life. Responding officers found him with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Ramos’s death marks the second veteran suicide this year at the same facility. In April 2025, 54-year-old former Navy veteran Mark Miller, author of a book about his struggles titled “Suicide Stalks the Sniper,” died by suicide in the same hospital parking lot. Miller, like Ramos, reportedly was seeking help from the VA.
The recurrence of such tragedies at the same location within a relatively short time span has renewed scrutiny and concern over mental-health care services for veterans.

Marine Veteran’s Suicide at VA Hospital Parking Lot Raises Alarm on Veteran Mental Health Crisis

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PO3 Phyllis Maynard

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Lt Col Charlie Brown there is so much culperbility by those in power. For someone to sit in a VA hospital parking lot and commit suicide, they have screamed for help, beforehand. As much as I support VA Healthcare, I am disillusioned because seemingly, trimming the budget and offering instant oatmeal treatments just to check the boxes is what is happening. Every major system, including the VA should be getting rid of "corn flake" personnel . The "old school" method providers and administrators techniques need to be reinstituted. New fangled and quick is not the best! Real treatment takes time. I did not walk in visible recovery until 30 years because we did not have the advancements then that we have now. With the advancements, we need the solid training, knowledge, know how, institution, experience that makes health care and not sick care. These new thinker treat recovery and stability as a 12 appointment fix. We are talking 3 too 5 years of careful management.

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