Police Standoff in NY with Vietnam Veteran

Trump Village Building On Lockdown While Police Standoff With ‘Vietnam Vet’
Sheepshead Bites
BY ALEX ELLEFSON
OCTOBER 15, 2015

A truck from the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit parked outside 3000 Ocean Parkway.

(Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)

An entire building in Trump Village was on lockdown for more than three hours Wednesday night while police were in a standoff with a disturbed man on the 16th floor, according to police and witnesses.

The NYPD say they received a call just before 5pm that an emotionally disturbed 69-year-old man had barricaded himself in his apartment at the 23-story building on 3000 Ocean Parkway. Cops swarmed the area and were eventually able to gain access to the apartment and take the man into custody. He was sent to Coney Island Hospital, according to the NYPD.

Police could not confirm the man was armed.

Steven Baker, who lives two floors above the apartment where the standoff took place, said his neighbor was a Vietnam veteran.

“He’s a good man, but he’s sick. He is a Vietnam vet and he has PTSD,” Baker said. “We’ve talked sometimes. He’s polite and curious. We talk about sports.”
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If you think any of this is new, here are a few reminders of how long this has been going on. This was reported a year before I new what PTSD was.

Veteran Acquitted in Assault
New York Times
Published: August 23, 1981

McKINNEY, Tex., Aug. 22 (UPI) - A 33-year-old Vietnam veteran who blamed a combat flashback for a standoff with the police in which he fired a shotgun from a window of his home has been found not guilty of aggravated assault by reason of insanity. Michael Ashley, who served in the Air Force, said the verdict yesterday was a victory for Vietnam veterans who suffered from trauma caused by the war. His five-hour standoff with the police occurred Oct. 17, 1980.

It happened in Pensacola in July of 1997 and reported by the Star Banner. It happened for decades and that is the worst news in all of this. Back then there was very little being done on PTSD. To arrive in a time and place when some think all this is new, they simply don't notice that none of it is new. All of these links are live plus a lot more. All they had to do was look for them.

Vietnam Vet Ends Standoff After 14 Hours
Associated Press
March 09, 1998

WACO, Texas — A Vietnam veteran armed with a rifle crashed his car through a gate at a Veterans Affairs office Sunday and held police off for 14 hours before giving up.

Jason Leigh, 48, who police said was upset over problems with his veterans benefits, left the office about 6 p.m. PST.

He walked out shirtless and with his hands up, ending a daylong standoff with police that forced hundreds of residents out of homes near the Veterans Affairs Regional Center.

Leigh, a Vietnam veteran, according to family members, broke into the center about 3:45 a.m. PST, Waco police spokeswoman Marcia Bourque said.