Decorate Vietnam Veteran Getting Help Instead of More Jail TIme

UPDATE: Decorated war veteran, jailed for 22 months in Madison County, now getting help
WHNT News 19
BY AL WHITAKER
JULY 11, 2015

“There was a unique situation here for somebody that needed help. Without you, it wouldn’t have happened and I appreciate you,” Taylor told WHNT News 19’s Al Whitaker following Friday’s hearing.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – Important results on a story we’ve been pursuing for months. In February, WHNT News 19 covered the story of Ron Buis, a Vietnam veteran suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He has spent the last 22 months in jail with no treatment for his condition.

We promised then we would not rest until Buis got the help he needed. And now we can report we’ve made good on that promise.

Ron Buis may have survived the Vietnam War but there was never a ceasefire declared with the voices in his head. His PTSD and related symptoms only got worse over the years until 2013 and he began shooting at them, and at the faces that haunted him still. His mobile home depicts the war that Buis was still fighting, some of the bullets landing in his neighbor’s mobile home. As a result, in September of 2013, Buis was arrested on charges of shooting into an occupied dwelling. He has sat in jail, without treatment, for 22 months.

“He’s also been emotionally traumatized and mentally traumatized by the ravages of war, the bombings, the friends and companions that’s he’s lost as a result of being in the war,” Says Buis’ attorney, John Taylor.
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