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.
A spokesperson from the United States Marine Corps confirmed Ramos’s service record: he served from June 2010 to August 2020.
A Troubling Pattern: Second Suicide at Same VA Hospital in 2025
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.
Voices of Grief and Calls for Change
In response to Ramos’s death, veteran-advocacy groups such as Veterans of Foreign Wars have called on leadership at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to take immediate action by reassessing outreach, mental-health care, and crisis-intervention protocols…