{"id":33377,"date":"2020-10-16T02:31:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T02:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/10\/16\/navy-identifies-tr-sailor-who-fatally-shot-himself-while-on-watch\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:41:04","slug":"navy-identifies-tr-sailor-who-fatally-shot-himself-while-on-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2020\/10\/16\/navy-identifies-tr-sailor-who-fatally-shot-himself-while-on-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy identifies TR sailor who fatally shot himself while on watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A junior sailor who fatally shot himself Tuesday while standing watch on a San Diego Navy pier has been identified as Seaman Isaiah Glenn Silvio Peralta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Precisely what happened remains unclear, but officials said this week that the 20-year-old Peralta shot himself on the Naval Air Station North Island<\/a> pier at about 8 a.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is assigned to the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, which got underway at about 10 a.m. that morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peralta was transported to the University of California-San Diego Medical Center and pronounced dead there, Navy spokesman Brian O\u2019Rourke told Navy Times Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naval Air Forces officials say Peralta hailed from Walnut Creek, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was unmarried and had no children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peralta enlisted in September 2018 and reported to TR in August 2019, his first assignment out of training, according to his service record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Naval Criminal Investigative Servic<\/a>e is investigating Peralta\u2019s suicide and officials from the agency did not respond to Navy Times requests for comment Thursday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a letter sent to the TR community dated Tuesday and obtained by Navy Times, commanding officer Capt. Eric Anduze<\/a> expressed sorrow over Peralta\u2019s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe will honor our Sailor\u2019s life by the way we live ours,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAs I spoke to the crew this evening, I reminded the Rough Riders that we are indeed a team; that everyone, every single one of us matters; that without even a single one of us, life wouldn\u2019t be the same.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet\u2019s take time as a team \u2013 you, your loved ones, friends, and me \u2013 to remember the value we bring to each other\u2019s lives and remind one another that we are in this together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peralta\u2019s family could not be reached for comment, and the factors that led the young man to take his own life remain unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His suicide comes as the crews and families of Theodore Roosevelt are preparing for another deployment, mere months after the ship returned to San Diego in July from a cruise where a COVID-19 outbreak infected roughly 25 percent of the sailors onboard and forced the carrier to sideline in Guam for months this spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One TR sailor, Chief Aviation Ordnanceman Charles Robert Thacker Jr., 41, died April 13 at U.S. Naval Hospital Guam from COVID complications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TR community members told Navy Times late last month that sailors are being told to expect the \u201cdouble-pump\u201d deployment to take place late this year or early next.<\/p>\n\n\n\t