Private memorial planned for Sailor Angelina Resendiz as family demands answers

A private memorial service will be held Tuesday for U.S. Navy sailor Angelina Resendiz, according to a spokesperson for her mother.

Resendiz, 21, was reported missing in late May. Her disappearance triggered growing concern after she vanished from her barracks at Naval Station Norfolk. Nearly two weeks later, her body was found in a wooded area near Richard Bowling Elementary School, several miles away in the city’s Broad Creek neighborhood.

The young culinary specialist, assigned to the USS James E. Williams, was last seen on May 29 at Miller Hall on base. However, a critically missing adult alert wasn’t issued by Virginia State Police on behalf of NCIS until June 3…

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