PTSD may play role in soldier's defense at murder trial

PTSD may play role in soldier's defense at murder trial
September 14, 2012
LANCE BENZEL
THE GAZETTE

A Fort Carson soldier accused of killing an unarmed man outside a Colorado Springs motorcycle club appears likely to argue at trial that he suffers the effects of combat stress and war injuries.

Christopher Anthony Mountjoy, 31, of Fountain, pleaded not guilty Thursday to aggravated robbery and first-degree murder in the March 3 shooting-death of Virgil Means on the city’s near-west side.

Means, also 31, was wounded in the head during an apparent ambush outside the Sin City Disciples Motorcycle Club, 628 W. Vermijo Ave.

Portions of Vermijo Avenue had been barricaded near the entrance to the club — which a member described to Colorado Springs police as a “1-percenter” outlaw biker gang — and shooters crouched low behind a trash bin and slow-moving cars while directing a hail of gunfire at a Cadillac in which Means was a passenger, according to previous court testimony by Colorado Springs police detectives.
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