Iraq veteran shot by police suffered PTSD

Wife: Iraq veteran shot by police suffered PTSD

Dec 11, 2010 3:29pm

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The wife of a Fort Carson soldier who was wounded during a confrontation with Army police says he had been sent home early from Iraq this summer after becoming suicidal.


On Sept. 22, Army police went to the home of Spc. Anthony Nicolas Jumangit, 23, at Fort Carson after his wife said he was threatening to cut himself with a knife. Officials said police shot him in the hand in self-defense after he allegedly advanced toward them.

Jumangit, of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, had repeatedly warned his supervisors that he didn't believe he was mentally fit to deploy last March after a close friend died during a combat tour that ended in 2008, his wife, Rebecca Jumangit, told The Gazette.

After he came home early in July, Jumangit complained that his antidepressant medication wasn't working, and he struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder so severe that he avoided driving and visiting crowded stores, she said.

"They just ignored him," she said.

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Iraq veteran shot by police suffered PTSD