Mom heard PTSD veteran being shot by police

Iraq veteran, shot by police, was outspoken on combat PTSD and his Mom was on the phone with him as this happened.

Mother haunted by phone call: 'I heard my son being killed'
By Joel Moreno
Published: Mar 11, 2013

SEATTLE -- A mother is now haunted by a phone call with her son in where she heard the gun shots that took his life.

Antoinette Cisneros was on the phone with her son Santiago when a shootout started with police at a Portland parking garage.

"I was there," she said. "I heard my son being killed."

Last Monday, two police officers in northeast Portland said they came upon 32-year-old Santiago Cisneros, who was armed with a shotgun, on the top of a parking garage.

His mom says he sounded calm on the line, but didn't make sense.

"He said to me, 'Mom, they're forcing me to go higher. They're forcing me to go higher,' " Antoinette Cisneros said.

Investigators say Santiago Cisneros got out of his car with a shotgun and fired on officers. His mom could still hear him talking on the open phone line.
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