US Army: two-star major general committed suicide at Alabama base

‘Recent death of a two-star US general at an army base has been officially ruled as suicide, pointing to the growing concerns about persistently high rate of suicide in the ranks of the US military.
The 55-year-old major general, identified as John Rossi from New York, was the incoming commander of Redstone Arsenal in the southern US state of Alabama, when he was found dead on July 31 at the military installation, which has served as the Army’s center for missile and rocket programs for over 50 years, but an unnamed Army spokesman said in a Friday statement that “the official cause of [his] death was suicide.”
“This is a tremendous loss for the Rossi family and, indeed, our entire Army family,” the spokesman added, as cited in an AP report, without elaborating on potential reasons for his suicide.’
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