We are learning more about murder suspect Garrett Solorzano.
It turns out Solorzano is a former Army Ranger, who served five tours overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan.
KELOLAND News talks exclusively with the neighbor who found Jennie Lee Smith-Solorzano's body in a Sioux Falls home on Saturday. He can't talk about the case, but told us the murder suspect is a great person who served his country honorably, but when he returned home, he struggled to get the help he needed.
KELOLAND News contacted the military to get more on Garrett Solorzano's service, but haven't been able to confirm yet how many years he spent in the Army. According to those who know Solorzano, his battles didn't end when he got out.
"Garrett is a super nice guy, quiet, timid, very personable; to get him to talk, to open up took awhile," Craig Campbell said.
Campbell was Solorzano's neighbor, who lived above him in a house on North Cliff Avenue for about a year.
Campbell says Solorzano talked about killing people during the war.
"Me and him talked about the nightmare of him shooting a little girl; she wouldn't put the gun down. He said it never went away," Campbell said.
Campbell's girlfriend would listen to Solorzano at times when he needed to talk about what he described to her as "demons" of his past.
"He's an amazing great person, but the voices were getting louder and louder," Toma Schumacher said.
Schumacher says she believes those voices were a cry for help, something he wasn't getting even though he was being treated at the VA.
"He said, 'I'd step back into hell in a minute just to have that camaraderie,'" Schumacher said.
Schumacher feels Solorzano is like so many other war veterans who return home.
"This guy got programmed out there to do the unspeakable and then he comes back with all of it in his head and heart and just got dropped cold," Schumacher said.
Schumacher says veterans like Solorzano deserve better.
"This is a perfect storm, just like this is brewing somewhere else with another Army. Somebody who gave their all, who is a wonderful person and losing it, and they don't have the help they need," Schumacher said.
Campbell says Solorzano told him he still has shrapnel in his back from the war because removing it could paralyze him.
The Army says it usually takes 24 hours to do a service records check on someone. If we learn anything new about Solorzano's military service, we'll let you know.