OEF-OIF Marine Committed Suicide, Mom Takes Action on PTSD

Exclusive: Marine’s Mother Blames VA Doctors For His Death
CBS Miami
Joan Murray
November 6, 2014

“If you ask any doctor at the VA, they will tell you they are not happy with the system but they need the resources from Congress,” said attorney John Uustal.

DAVIE (CBSMiami) – The family of a decorated marine is saying Veterans Affairs (VA) doctors gave him powerful drugs that he used to take his own life.

Twenty-four year old Marine Lance corporal Johnny Lutz first served in Iraq and then the front lines of Afghanistan.

“Johnny was the life of the party,” said his mother Janine Lutz.

But war changed him. He committed suicide shortly after returning from serving.

“For six months every minute you think you are gonna die and that changes your brain,” said Lutz.

She said he didn’t die on the battlefield but because of medical mistakes at the VA Hospital in Miami and clinic in Tamarac.
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