Ex-soldier can’t recall standoff: lawyer
By Russ Bynum - The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday May 3, 2012
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A former soldier charged with taking hostages at gunpoint inside an Army hospital in Georgia suffers from severe post-traumatic stress and has no memory of the 2010 standoff, his defense attorney said Thursday.
The attorney for Robert Anthony Quinones, 31, tried unsuccessfully to persuade a U.S. Magistrate Court judge to throw out statements the suspected gunman made to investigators — including that he planned to kill President Obama and former President Bill Clinton — on grounds that he was too mentally ill to waive his Miranda rights.
Prosecutors say Quinones was armed with an assault rifle and other firearms as he took three employees hostage at Winn Army Community Hospital on Fort Stewart on Sept. 6, 2010, and demanded mental treatment. He surrendered two hours later, and no one was harmed.
Quinones later underwent a court-ordered mental evaluation. His attorney, Karl Zipperer, said in court Thursday that the former soldier had attempted suicide, been hospitalized and diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after he returned from a 15-month tour in Iraq in 2007. That diagnosis led to him being discharged from the Army.
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