Two Veterans With PTSD and Same Name Spotlight PTSD

Sunnyvale: Veteran killed in officer shooting, but not missing vet with same name
Mercury News
By Robert Salonga
POSTED: 04/13/2015

Joseph Jeremy Weber, 28, an Army veteran out of Sunnyvale
was shot and killed by police April 8, 2015 after an
alleged liquor-store robbery.

( California Dept. of Motor Vehicles)

SUNNYVALE -- The man shot and killed by police after wielding a knife during a liquor-store robbery last week was an Army veteran reportedly dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, authorities said.

But the suspect, Joseph Jeremy Weber, 28, is not to be confused with missing Joseph George Weber IV -- also 28, also a 2004 alum of Fremont High School, and also an Army vet reportedly battling PTSD -- who disappeared last fall.

Both Joseph Webers knew of the other while attending Fremont, but otherwise had no significant overlap besides the occasional confusing of the two.

Joseph Jeremy Weber, 28, an Army veteran out of Sunnyvale, was shot and killed by police April 8, 2015 after an alleged liquor-store robbery.

It was strong enough that when Weber the suspect was seen at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System about three weeks ago, Sunnyvale police contacted the family of Weber the missing person -- who also visited the same VA hospital -- to let them know it wasn't their son.

They made a similar call Wednesday after the fatal afternoon shooting in an alleyway off Tasman Drive.
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