SAN ANTONIO — A veteran’s suicide in the parking lot of the Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital last week — the second at the facility this year — has renewed anger, grief and demands for immediate action to improve mental health care for service members.

Family members, advocates and lawmakers gathered Monday outside the San Antonio VA hospital following the death of 33-year-old Marine veteran Enrique Ramos Jr., who died by suicide Thursday afternoon in the hospital’s parking lot.

According to a GoFundMe page created by his family, Ramos suffered from serious psychological and physical injuries that forced him into early retirement.

The loss intensified the pain for Dr. Larry Miller, whose son, U.S. Navy veteran Mark Miller, died by suicide at the same VA facility in April.

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