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- Zamora, a female former Naval Academy midshipman, is currently serving a life sentence for the 1995 slaying of the high school girlfriend of Graham, who was also convicted of murder in the teenage love triangle.
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Jul 24, 2018 · A federal court has rejected an appeal from a female former Naval Academy midshipman serving a life sentence in Texas for the 1995 slaying of the high school girlfriend of her former Air Force...
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Dec 13, 2016 · Nearly a year had passed since Adrianne’s murder, and both David and Diane graduated high school and moved forward with their lives. David was attending Basic U.S. Air Force Cadet Training in Colorado Springs, Colorado, while Diane was attending the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
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At least four U.S. Navy sailors assigned to the same facility in Virginia died by suicide in the last few weeks, including one as recently as Saturday, military officials and family members said.
It is the latest cluster of Navy suicides this year to spark concerns of a fleetwide mental health crisis.
The four sailors worked for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC), which maintains military ships and is based in Norfolk, Virginia.
“I was inundated with the amount of hopelessness at that command,” said Kayla Arestivo, a licensed counselor who was brought in two weeks ago to help the sailors in the unit.
Many MARMC sailors have been struggling with personal issues that were exacerbated by a lack of mental health resources on the job and feeling overworked and undervalued by their leaders, according to a sailor who spoke with NBC News and Arestivo, who recently led four suicide prevention sessions at the site.
“Part of it is toxic leadership. The sailors immediately pointed that out," Arestivo said.
Kody Lee Decker, 22, of Virginia, was on limited duty due to mental health issues when he took his own life on Oct. 29, according to a sailor close to Decker, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation.
The electronics technician's struggles began in early 2020 while he was serving the USS Bataan and dealing with “toxic leadership” on the amphibious assault ship, the sailor said.
The sailor said Decker's mental health worsened once he was transferred in August to MARMC, where his work conditions did not improve and he did not receive psychological help.
"If he had come to MARMC and they actually acted like they gave a s--- and provided resources and followed up, I do not think we would be sitting here having this conversation," the sailor said.
Decker, remembered for his outgoing personality and his love of high-end sneakers, had just become a father about nine months before his death.
"More kids are going to lose their parents. More people are going to lose their spouses, unnecessarily," the sailor said. "It doesn't need to be this way."
The Navy and local police departments are investigating the circumstances surrounding each death, but military officials said the four deaths have been classified as apparent suicides.
The suicide prevention sessions that Arestivo was brought in for were mandatory to personnel and held twice a day on Nov. 14 and Nov. 16, MARMC and Arestivo said.
More than half of the division attended, Arestivo said. But the efforts, which came after at least two other sailors had already died by suicide, were too late, she said.
And without systematic changes, the counselor said she knew a pair of seminars and other responses, such as suicide awareness emails, would not be enough to prevent more deaths.
A third sailor died by suicide on Nov. 14. He had not attended the suicide prevention session earlier that day but was slated to attend the second one, Arestivo said.
"We’re putting Band-Aids on bullet holes," she said.
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Sep 1, 2022 · VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A Navy lieutenant is accused of killing his 20-year-old girlfriend after she allegedly refused to get an abortion. Raquiah King, of Hampton, was reportedly 12 weeks...
Sep 5, 2021 · Michelle Jordan Cummings was shot to death outside of an Annapolis hotel in June when she was in town to drop her son off at the Academy.
