Suicidal Vet with PTSD Killed by Police in Denver

The therapist did the right thing. The law required her to call police because the veteran was a danger to himself. So why is he dead? He sought help and wanted to get better or he would not have been seeing a psychologist. With a rifle in aimed at police officers, they had no choice. This happens all too often. So how does a call for help to save a life end up this way? Why do they seek help and still suffer to the point where death is preferable to life after life was still worth the fight in war?

Rifle-wielding man who said he had PTSD shot by police
The Denver Post
By Kirk Mitchell
POSTED: 06/06/2014

A police officer shot and killed a suicidal military veteran after the man aimed a rifle at the officer in the driveway of his home, according to police.

"He pointed the rifle," said Lt. Gary Millspaugh of the Aurora Police Department. "He was shot in the upper torso."

The man, whose identity has not been released, was rushed to an Aurora hospital Friday after the 4:04 p.m. incident and was later pronounced dead.

The officer who was involved in the shooting was not injured during the confrontation, police said.

A psychologist called 911 and said he had just received a call from a patient who was potentially suicidal, Millspaugh said.

The therapist explained that the man was a military veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and may have been abusing his psychotropic medications and drinking alcohol, Millspaugh said.
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