Update: Man Threatening Suicide 'Passes Out,' SWAT Rushes In
The Douglasville Police Department and Douglas County Sheriff's Department have a house in Tributary surrounded. The man in the house called 911 earlier today is threatening to kill himself.
By John Barker
October 25, 2012
Update 4:13 p.m.
The man threatening suicide was taken to Douglas Hospital moments ago, after passing out on his back porch and being overtaken by the SWAT Team, according to Deputy Gary Sparks, Douglasville Police.
"Appearantly he had been drinking and was a little intoxicated," Sparks said. "He somewhat passed out and the SWAT Team went to go take him."
The man stated at one point he was a former Marine or had been in the military, Sparks said.
"I'm happy we resolved the situation peacefully," he said. "That's what the SWAT Team is for, to resolve situations in a peaceful manner. That's their mission. They work well with the negotiators and other elements as far as communications is concerned."
Sparks said the reason he was taken to the hospital was to be evaluated by medical personnel.
"He needs help," he said. "He needs to be evaluated by mental personnel."
Sparks said the gun was confiscated for the man's safety.
"Our major concern right now is everyone's safety," he said. "We're not looking at any charges."
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Friday, October 26, 2012
Monday, September 10, 2012
Houston SWAT responds to suicidal Army veteran
SWAT responds to suicidal Army veteran
by KHOU.com Staff
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Posted on September 9, 2012
HOUSTON—A SWAT team was called to negotiate with a suicidal Army veteran who barricaded himself inside his apartment Sunday morning.
Around 8 a.m., Houston police arrived at the Chestnut Hill Apartments on Bellerive to find the man inside his home.
He told officers that he was armed.
SWAT arrived and spoke with the suspect until 2 p.m., when the man was taken to the VA hospital for an evaluation.
No shots were fired and no injuries were reported.
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by KHOU.com Staff
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Posted on September 9, 2012
HOUSTON—A SWAT team was called to negotiate with a suicidal Army veteran who barricaded himself inside his apartment Sunday morning.
Around 8 a.m., Houston police arrived at the Chestnut Hill Apartments on Bellerive to find the man inside his home.
He told officers that he was armed.
SWAT arrived and spoke with the suspect until 2 p.m., when the man was taken to the VA hospital for an evaluation.
No shots were fired and no injuries were reported.
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Monday, July 30, 2012
Maine VA employee suspected in murder-suicide
Former Jacksonville resident killed girlfriend, then himself, Maine State Police say
Posted: July 29, 2012
By Associated Press
HAMPDEN, Maine — Maine State Police identified the man who shot his girlfriend and then killed himself at a Hampden house where a state police SWAT team had assembled.
The shooter was identified Saturday as 53-year-old Lawrence Beaute, who had lived in Jacksonville.
Posted: July 29, 2012
By Associated Press
HAMPDEN, Maine — Maine State Police identified the man who shot his girlfriend and then killed himself at a Hampden house where a state police SWAT team had assembled.
The shooter was identified Saturday as 53-year-old Lawrence Beaute, who had lived in Jacksonville.
Police say Beaute was a medical technician at a Veterans Affairs facility in Bangor. read more here
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Utah SWAT officers helping Gulf War Veteran after standoff
Man surrenders, taken to mental health agency after standoff
Cathy Allred and Mary Burgin
DAILY HERALD
Posted: Tuesday, May 8, 2012
PLEASANT GROVE -- A Gulf War veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder was safely taken into custody and transported to Wasatch Mental Health after a more than 3-hour standoff in the Pleasant Grove neighborhood of Monkey Town on Monday evening.
Police estimate some 12-15 homes were evacuated between 300 and 500 North and 200 and 400 East, with the 2-block area cordoned off to civilians during that time.
“The suspect is in custody but we are not going to file charges at this time,” said Lt. Britt Smith, Pleasant Grove police information officer.
Forty-year-old Nathan Hilton willingly surrendered to SWAT officers.
“I don’t think he had any knowledge that the SWAT team was there,” Smith said.
Police received a call from Hilton’s parents at approximately 5:15 p.m.; they said they had arrived at the home that they share with their son and heard gunshots and smelled gunpowder. The parents found their son in the basement of their home and tried to get the firearms — there were several in the home —from him. He was uncooperative, which is when the parents called the police.
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Cathy Allred and Mary Burgin
DAILY HERALD
Posted: Tuesday, May 8, 2012
“We are more concerned for him hurting himself than others,” Smith said. “This is a veteran who served our country. We want to get him the help he needs.”
PLEASANT GROVE -- A Gulf War veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder was safely taken into custody and transported to Wasatch Mental Health after a more than 3-hour standoff in the Pleasant Grove neighborhood of Monkey Town on Monday evening.
Police estimate some 12-15 homes were evacuated between 300 and 500 North and 200 and 400 East, with the 2-block area cordoned off to civilians during that time.
“The suspect is in custody but we are not going to file charges at this time,” said Lt. Britt Smith, Pleasant Grove police information officer.
Forty-year-old Nathan Hilton willingly surrendered to SWAT officers.
“I don’t think he had any knowledge that the SWAT team was there,” Smith said.
Police received a call from Hilton’s parents at approximately 5:15 p.m.; they said they had arrived at the home that they share with their son and heard gunshots and smelled gunpowder. The parents found their son in the basement of their home and tried to get the firearms — there were several in the home —from him. He was uncooperative, which is when the parents called the police.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Another Marine Iraq Veteran with PTSD shot by SWAT team
GBI probes Iraq vet killed in Ga. SWAT shootout
By Terry Dickson
Morris News Service
Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 7:31 AM
BAXLEY, Ga. -- The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is probing the weekend shooting death of an Iraq war veteran in an armed standoff in south Georgia’s Appling County.
Neighbors of James M. Dixon III, 31, called the Sheriff’s Office about 3:50 a.m. Sunday to say someone had fired a shot through their house, Sheriff Bennie DeLoach said in a news statement.
Deputies went to Dixon’s house but decided for safety reasons to wait until daylight before confronting whoever fired the shot, DeLoach said.
As they waited, Dixon left the house and drove to his parents’ house about a half mile away on Holland Road Extension, Chief Deputy Lee J. Sweat Jr. said.
Deputies were not in position to stop Dixon but tried to stop him as he came back home, Sweat said.
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Corporal James M. Dixon III, survived 3 tours in Iraq, passed away at home
By Terry Dickson
Morris News Service
Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 7:31 AM
BAXLEY, Ga. -- The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is probing the weekend shooting death of an Iraq war veteran in an armed standoff in south Georgia’s Appling County.
Dixon’s older sister, Serran Aaron, said her brother suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and was 100 percent disabled.
Neighbors of James M. Dixon III, 31, called the Sheriff’s Office about 3:50 a.m. Sunday to say someone had fired a shot through their house, Sheriff Bennie DeLoach said in a news statement.
Deputies went to Dixon’s house but decided for safety reasons to wait until daylight before confronting whoever fired the shot, DeLoach said.
As they waited, Dixon left the house and drove to his parents’ house about a half mile away on Holland Road Extension, Chief Deputy Lee J. Sweat Jr. said.
Deputies were not in position to stop Dixon but tried to stop him as he came back home, Sweat said.
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Corporal James M. Dixon III, survived 3 tours in Iraq, passed away at home
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Veteran sues after SWAT response to his call to National Suicide Hotline for help
That's not the Help He Wanted
By IULIA FILIP
(CN) - A depressed Army reservist who made a phone call for help says dozens of police responded by surrounding his home and arresting him, vandalizing and searching his place without a warrant, seizing his dog and killing his tropical fish.
Matthew Corrigan, who lives alone with his dog, sued the District of Columbia in D.C. Federal Court.
Confronted with a massive police presence after his plea for help, Corrigan says, he denied officers permission to enter his house, but they entered and trashed it anyway, saying, "I don't have time to play this constitutional bullshit!"
Corrigan says the debacle started on Feb. 2, 2010.
"Corrigan telephoned what he believed to be the 'Military's Emotional Support Hotline' because he was depressed and had not slept for several days," the complaint states.
"The number Corrigan called was in fact the National Suicide Hotline. When he stated that he was a veteran, he was asked if he had firearms, to which he said yes. He said nothing about being suicidal or using a firearm or threatening anyone. After a short conversation, Corrigan hung up, turned off the phone, took prescribed sleeping medication, and went to bed.
"At approximately 4 a.m. in the morning of Feb. 3, 2010, Corrigan awoke because he heard his name being called over a bullhorn. There were floodlights outside his front and back doors and an estimated 8 police officers in the back yard and 20 in the front yard.
"Corrigan turned on his phone and found that Officer Fischer of the 5th District was calling him, asking him to come out, which he did at about 4:50 a.m., locking the door behind him. He was handcuffed and put in the back of a SWAT truck.
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By IULIA FILIP
(CN) - A depressed Army reservist who made a phone call for help says dozens of police responded by surrounding his home and arresting him, vandalizing and searching his place without a warrant, seizing his dog and killing his tropical fish.
Matthew Corrigan, who lives alone with his dog, sued the District of Columbia in D.C. Federal Court.
Confronted with a massive police presence after his plea for help, Corrigan says, he denied officers permission to enter his house, but they entered and trashed it anyway, saying, "I don't have time to play this constitutional bullshit!"
Corrigan says the debacle started on Feb. 2, 2010.
"Corrigan telephoned what he believed to be the 'Military's Emotional Support Hotline' because he was depressed and had not slept for several days," the complaint states.
"The number Corrigan called was in fact the National Suicide Hotline. When he stated that he was a veteran, he was asked if he had firearms, to which he said yes. He said nothing about being suicidal or using a firearm or threatening anyone. After a short conversation, Corrigan hung up, turned off the phone, took prescribed sleeping medication, and went to bed.
"At approximately 4 a.m. in the morning of Feb. 3, 2010, Corrigan awoke because he heard his name being called over a bullhorn. There were floodlights outside his front and back doors and an estimated 8 police officers in the back yard and 20 in the front yard.
"Corrigan turned on his phone and found that Officer Fischer of the 5th District was calling him, asking him to come out, which he did at about 4:50 a.m., locking the door behind him. He was handcuffed and put in the back of a SWAT truck.
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
Suicidal soldier prompts SWAT standoff
Suicidal soldier prompts SWAT standoff
Chelsea Bannach The Spokesman-Review
A suicidal soldier prompted a SWAT standoff in Spokane County this afternoon.
A few minutes before noon, a couple called police after finding a bloody man in a truck parked near Nevada Street and Magnesium Road that was running for more than an hour and a half, said sheriff’s Spokesman Sgt. Dave Reagan.
Police thought the 35-year-old man may have been armed with a gun because he is a military reservist, Reagan said. The SWAT team responded after the man refused to exit the vehicle and began revving his engine.
As SWAT moved in, the man exited the truck and surrendered. He had self-inflicted knife wounds to his legs and neck, and was transported to a downtown hospital for surgery and a mental evaluation.
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Chelsea Bannach The Spokesman-Review
A suicidal soldier prompted a SWAT standoff in Spokane County this afternoon.
A few minutes before noon, a couple called police after finding a bloody man in a truck parked near Nevada Street and Magnesium Road that was running for more than an hour and a half, said sheriff’s Spokesman Sgt. Dave Reagan.
Police thought the 35-year-old man may have been armed with a gun because he is a military reservist, Reagan said. The SWAT team responded after the man refused to exit the vehicle and began revving his engine.
As SWAT moved in, the man exited the truck and surrendered. He had self-inflicted knife wounds to his legs and neck, and was transported to a downtown hospital for surgery and a mental evaluation.
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Sunday, December 11, 2011
Former SWAT team leader lifts veil on PTSD
When you think about Navy SEALS, Green Berets and SWAT police officers, you may be linking them to the Hollywood stars pretending to be them. Tougher than tough, trained killers unable to feel regret but that is not the truth. They are still as human as anyone else.
Here's a story you won't read about often. An ex-SWAT team leader talks about PTSD and the price he paid for what he had to do.
Here's a story you won't read about often. An ex-SWAT team leader talks about PTSD and the price he paid for what he had to do.
In tailspin after police shootings, former SWAT team leader lifts veil on post-traumatic stress syndrome
Curtis Rush
Police Reporter
It was 12 years ago when Jim Bremner killed a man.
Looking at him now, balding at age 52, with sorrowful blue eyes and an apple-pie humbleness, it’s hard to imagine him as a trained killer.
Now he’s a spiritual man who talks about lifting the veil of secrecy over an alpha-swagger police culture that treats post-traumatic stress disorder as a weakness.
But 12 years ago, he was a different man. He was the team leader of Special Weapons Team One on the elite Emergency Task Force.
He was the best of the best. An assassin if he needed to be.
However, nobody trained him how to deal with the crippling emotions, nightmares and flashbacks that followed.
How terribly ironic that it was in a major metropolitan hospital, where countless lives are saved, that he took a life with an assault rifle on New Year’s Eve in 1999.
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
SWAT team's shooting of Marine causes outrage
Nov 27, 1:49 PM EST
SWAT team's shooting of Marine causes outrage
BY AMANDA LEE MYERS
Associated Press
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Jose Guerena Ortiz was sleeping after an exhausting 12-hour night shift at a copper mine. His wife, Vanessa, had begun breakfast. Their 4-year-old son, Joel, asked to watch cartoons.
An ordinary morning was unfolding in the middle-class Tucson neighborhood - until an armored vehicle pulled into the family's driveway and men wearing heavy body armor and helmets climbed out, weapons ready.
They were a sheriff's department SWAT team who had come to execute a search warrant. But Vanessa Guerena insisted she had no idea, when she heard a "boom" and saw a dark-suited man pass by a window, that it was police outside her home. She shook her husband awake and told him someone was firing a gun outside.
A U.S. Marine veteran of the Iraq war, he was only trying to defend his family, she said, when he grabbed his own gun - an AR-15 assault rifle.
What happened next was captured on video after a member of the SWAT team activated a helmet-mounted camera.
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SWAT team's shooting of Marine causes outrage
BY AMANDA LEE MYERS
Associated Press
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Jose Guerena Ortiz was sleeping after an exhausting 12-hour night shift at a copper mine. His wife, Vanessa, had begun breakfast. Their 4-year-old son, Joel, asked to watch cartoons.
An ordinary morning was unfolding in the middle-class Tucson neighborhood - until an armored vehicle pulled into the family's driveway and men wearing heavy body armor and helmets climbed out, weapons ready.
They were a sheriff's department SWAT team who had come to execute a search warrant. But Vanessa Guerena insisted she had no idea, when she heard a "boom" and saw a dark-suited man pass by a window, that it was police outside her home. She shook her husband awake and told him someone was firing a gun outside.
A U.S. Marine veteran of the Iraq war, he was only trying to defend his family, she said, when he grabbed his own gun - an AR-15 assault rifle.
What happened next was captured on video after a member of the SWAT team activated a helmet-mounted camera.
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Sunday, October 2, 2011
Soldier Says PTSD Cost Him His Job On SWAT Team
Soldier Says PTSD Cost Him His Job
by Marcus Washington
SPRINGFIELD, Tenn. - He risked his life for our country, and even watched his friends die in combat. Now a soldier said he is without a job because of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and he said he was fired without merit.
A life as a soldier or someone protecting others from the "bad guys" has always been a dream for Chad Clinard.
"As a kid I was always playing G.I. Joe," said Clinard.
So between two deployments to Iraq, Clinard applied to work for the Robertson County Sheriff's Office.
"I got a call asking if I wanted to be a correctional officer, so I immediately jumped on that and started at the beginning of January 2006," said Clinard.
Clinard did well at the Robertson County Sheriff's Office. In the five years he was there he went from correctional officer to a member of the SWAT team.
"In trying to keep the crime rate down, trying to keep the drugs off the streets, that's where I wanted to be. I wanted to be that guy," he said.
Clinard admitted what happened in Iraq is not always easy to deal with after three of his closest friends were killed in combat.
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by Marcus Washington
SPRINGFIELD, Tenn. - He risked his life for our country, and even watched his friends die in combat. Now a soldier said he is without a job because of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and he said he was fired without merit.
A life as a soldier or someone protecting others from the "bad guys" has always been a dream for Chad Clinard.
"As a kid I was always playing G.I. Joe," said Clinard.
So between two deployments to Iraq, Clinard applied to work for the Robertson County Sheriff's Office.
"I got a call asking if I wanted to be a correctional officer, so I immediately jumped on that and started at the beginning of January 2006," said Clinard.
Clinard did well at the Robertson County Sheriff's Office. In the five years he was there he went from correctional officer to a member of the SWAT team.
"In trying to keep the crime rate down, trying to keep the drugs off the streets, that's where I wanted to be. I wanted to be that guy," he said.
Clinard admitted what happened in Iraq is not always easy to deal with after three of his closest friends were killed in combat.
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3 Tour Ex-Marine arrested in Hillsborough County deputy shooting
It is by the grace of God this ended the way it did. DeVeaux is still alive after being shot at "9 or 10 times" by a Marine trained to kill. Buendia was not killed by SWAT. Some may want to just blame Buendia for all of this but that is only because they do not understand how this country has been failing the men and women we send into combat. Buendia brought the war back home inside of him.
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Suspect in Hillsborough deputy shooting a former Marine
9 or 10 times a gun was fired by someone trained to hit what they aim at. He was close to her. She survived. Over the years veterans like Buendia have been treated like common criminals, with no care for anyone else but themselves. The veterans in this country are not about "self" or they wouldn't choose the professions they enter into. When they come home changed and challenged by where we send them, it is our responsibility to care for them. If we don't, there will be many more times when the story is repeated with a very different outcome.
Ex-Marine arrested in Hillsborough County deputy shooting
By Jessica Vander Velde and Shelley Rossetter, Times Staff Writers
In Print: Sunday, October 2, 2011
Hillsborough deputies escort former Marine Matthew Buendia, 24, at the jail on Saturday.
[OCTAVIO JONES | Times]
TAMPA — Five years ago, Matt Buendia was a Marine preparing for deployment and Lyonelle De Veaux was a new sheriff's deputy.
He focused on rising through the ranks. She aimed to help abused and neglected children.
They met on Friday, De Veaux parked under the oaks at a Carrollwood apartment complex and Buendia with a gun tucked into his waistband.
It was a routine domestic call. De Veaux, 35, met Buendia's girlfriend at the front of the complex about 10:30 p.m. Friday. The deputy asked the woman to sit in the patrol car so she could give a statement.
That's when Buendia, 24, walked up. He was too close. The deputy asked him to step back.
Instead, he whipped out a semiautomatic gun and started pumping bullets into De Veaux, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office reported.
He fired nine or 10 times, deputies say, from just a few feet away.
De Veaux spun and crouched as she backed up, trying to use her car to get some distance from Buendia — a mix of training and instinct.
Three bullets hit her — in the upper leg, lower leg and shoulder, Sheriff David Gee said. She was wearing a protective vest, but it didn't cover those areas.
As she lay on the pavement, Buendia ran back into his apartment and locked himself inside.
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Suspect in Hillsborough deputy shooting a former Marine
9 or 10 times a gun was fired by someone trained to hit what they aim at. He was close to her. She survived. Over the years veterans like Buendia have been treated like common criminals, with no care for anyone else but themselves. The veterans in this country are not about "self" or they wouldn't choose the professions they enter into. When they come home changed and challenged by where we send them, it is our responsibility to care for them. If we don't, there will be many more times when the story is repeated with a very different outcome.
"He served three deployments in the Middle East, according to his uncle, Bob Buendia, 68, and rose to the rank of sergeant. He left the military a couple of years ago. His uncle believes Matthew started working in insurance.
When Matthew Buendia returned to the United States, his uncle spoke to him by phone. Matthew Buendia mentioned he had lost a lot of buddies overseas.
He didn't share the details, but his family could tell he was hurting, said Bob Buendia, of Texas."
The young man was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, family members say.
"I don't think he understands what had happened, to be honest with you," Matthew Buendia's father, Richard Buendia, told Bay News 9. "I feel awful. … He's a good young man, never been in any kind of problems at all."
Matthew Buendia was being seen by Veterans Affairs doctors, Bob Buendia said.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Firefighter Arrested After Weekend Standoff was Military Police Officer
Firefighter Arrested After Weekend Standoff
Attorney: Client Being Treated For PTSD
CINCINNATI -- A Deerfield Township firefighter was arrested after a standoff on Saturday.
Prosecutors said Nicholas Bomske broke into his girlfriend's parents' home in the 3700 block of N. Berkley Circle.
A SWAT unit was called in and residents were kept in their homes until Bomske was taken into custody.
At his arraignment Monday, Bomske's attorney said his client is a current firefighter and former military police officer who is undergoing treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Attorney: Client Being Treated For PTSD
CINCINNATI -- A Deerfield Township firefighter was arrested after a standoff on Saturday.
Prosecutors said Nicholas Bomske broke into his girlfriend's parents' home in the 3700 block of N. Berkley Circle.
A SWAT unit was called in and residents were kept in their homes until Bomske was taken into custody.
At his arraignment Monday, Bomske's attorney said his client is a current firefighter and former military police officer who is undergoing treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
71 year old veteran faced off with SWAT at VA hospital
Flash grenade ends standoff at VA office
A 71-year-old veteran from Creswell is taken to the hospital after a SWAT team defuses a tense confrontation
BY JACK MORAN
The Register-Guard
A Eugene police SWAT team on Wednesday used a percussion grenade to end a standoff with a military veteran who allegedly threatened to shoot a local Veterans Affairs clinic manager and later pointed a shotgun at a federal police officer who works at the facility.
Eugene police took 71-year-old Milan Jackie Boon into custody following the standoff, which ended shortly after noon in the parking lot of the VA clinic at 100 River Ave.
Boon, a Creswell resident, was cited on charges of menacing, pointing a firearm at another person, unlawful use of a firearm and disorderly conduct. He was not jailed, police said.
Though Boon had blood on his face when he was loaded into an ambulance, he did not suffer serious injuries in the incident, police Lt. Doug Mozan said.
According to police and a VA spokeswoman, an employee of the clinic notified police at 11:24 a.m. that an agitated veteran had arrived there a short time earlier.
The man complained about what he perceived as subpar service, then allegedly told the clinic’s operations manager that he would shoot her with a shotgun. Police later recovered the weapon from Boon’s Plymouth minivan, which he had parked in a handicapped spot in the clinic’s front lot.
“He was upset,” VA spokeswoman Sharon Carlson said. “We can’t determine exactly why. When he came in, he stated that the (clinic) staff wasn’t doing anything.”
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Flash grenade ends standoff at VA office
A 71-year-old veteran from Creswell is taken to the hospital after a SWAT team defuses a tense confrontation
BY JACK MORAN
The Register-Guard
A Eugene police SWAT team on Wednesday used a percussion grenade to end a standoff with a military veteran who allegedly threatened to shoot a local Veterans Affairs clinic manager and later pointed a shotgun at a federal police officer who works at the facility.
Eugene police took 71-year-old Milan Jackie Boon into custody following the standoff, which ended shortly after noon in the parking lot of the VA clinic at 100 River Ave.
Boon, a Creswell resident, was cited on charges of menacing, pointing a firearm at another person, unlawful use of a firearm and disorderly conduct. He was not jailed, police said.
Though Boon had blood on his face when he was loaded into an ambulance, he did not suffer serious injuries in the incident, police Lt. Doug Mozan said.
According to police and a VA spokeswoman, an employee of the clinic notified police at 11:24 a.m. that an agitated veteran had arrived there a short time earlier.
The man complained about what he perceived as subpar service, then allegedly told the clinic’s operations manager that he would shoot her with a shotgun. Police later recovered the weapon from Boon’s Plymouth minivan, which he had parked in a handicapped spot in the clinic’s front lot.
“He was upset,” VA spokeswoman Sharon Carlson said. “We can’t determine exactly why. When he came in, he stated that the (clinic) staff wasn’t doing anything.”
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Flash grenade ends standoff at VA office
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Arizona SWAT Team Cleared after killing Marine Vet Jose Guerena
Arizona SWAT Team Cleared in Former Marine's Killing
By DEAN SCHABNER
June 14, 2011
The SWAT team that gunned down a former Marine in his Tucson, Ariz., home was cleared today of any wrongdoing in the incident.
Jose Guerena, 26, was killed in a hail of bullets from the SWAT team, which broke down the door to his home on May 5 while trying to serve a search warrant as part of a home invasion probe.
Guerena did not fire a single shot in the incident, but Pima County Chief Criminal Deputy Attorney David Berkman said in the report issued today that the five SWAT team members were justified in using deadly force because the former Marine pointed his weapon at them.
"A close examination of the rifle revealed it appeared to have been damaged by being fired upon from such an angle that it must have been pointed toward officers," Berkman wrote. "The officers were mistaken in believing Mr. Guerena fired at them. However, when Mr. Guerena raised the AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle in their direction, they needed to take immediate action to stop the deadly threat against them."
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Arizona SWAT Team Cleared in Former Marine Killing
By DEAN SCHABNER
June 14, 2011
The SWAT team that gunned down a former Marine in his Tucson, Ariz., home was cleared today of any wrongdoing in the incident.
Jose Guerena, 26, was killed in a hail of bullets from the SWAT team, which broke down the door to his home on May 5 while trying to serve a search warrant as part of a home invasion probe.
Guerena did not fire a single shot in the incident, but Pima County Chief Criminal Deputy Attorney David Berkman said in the report issued today that the five SWAT team members were justified in using deadly force because the former Marine pointed his weapon at them.
"A close examination of the rifle revealed it appeared to have been damaged by being fired upon from such an angle that it must have been pointed toward officers," Berkman wrote. "The officers were mistaken in believing Mr. Guerena fired at them. However, when Mr. Guerena raised the AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle in their direction, they needed to take immediate action to stop the deadly threat against them."
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Arizona SWAT Team Cleared in Former Marine Killing
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Iraq war vet was shot 70 times in home by SWAT captured on tape
Dramatic footage shows moment Iraq war vet was shot 70 times in home... as report reveals he did NOT open fire on SWAT team
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 6:19 PM on 27th May 2011
A U.S. Marine who was killed when he was gunned down in his home near Tucson, Arizona, never fired on the SWAT team that stormed his house firing 70 times in a hail of bullets, a report has revealed.
The revelation came as dramatic footage of the shooting was released, showing the armed team pounding down the door of Jose Guerena's home and opening fire.
Read more: Dramatic footage shows moment Iraq war vet was shot
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 6:19 PM on 27th May 2011
A U.S. Marine who was killed when he was gunned down in his home near Tucson, Arizona, never fired on the SWAT team that stormed his house firing 70 times in a hail of bullets, a report has revealed.
The revelation came as dramatic footage of the shooting was released, showing the armed team pounding down the door of Jose Guerena's home and opening fire.
Read more: Dramatic footage shows moment Iraq war vet was shot
Friday, May 27, 2011
Marine never fired on SWAT officers who fatally shot him
Report: Marine never fired on SWAT officers who fatally shot him
By Chuck Conder, CNN
May 27, 2011 8:06 a.m. EDT
Jose Guerena died May 5 after a SWAT team descended on his home in a Tucson suburb with a search warrant.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Deputies fire more than 70 shots during a drug raid near Tucson
Jose Guerena is hit more than 20 times
He never took his weapons off safety, report says
Officers remain on active duty; no legal action has been taken
Tucson, Arizona (CNN) -- A U.S. Marine who died in a flurry of bullets during a drug raid near Tucson never fired on the SWAT team that stormed his house, a report by the Pima County Sheriff's Department shows.
The revelation was contained in an internal investigation released by the department Thursday.
Jose Guerena died May 5 after a SWAT team descended on his home in a Tucson suburb with a search warrant. His home was one of four believed to be associated with a drug smuggling operation in the area.
A video released Thursday by the sheriff's department shows the uniformed SWAT team pulling up outside his house, sounding their sirens, banging on the front door -- before kicking it in -- and opening fire shortly after entering the home.
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Marine never fired on SWAT officers who fatally shot him
By Chuck Conder, CNN
May 27, 2011 8:06 a.m. EDT
Jose Guerena died May 5 after a SWAT team descended on his home in a Tucson suburb with a search warrant.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Deputies fire more than 70 shots during a drug raid near Tucson
Jose Guerena is hit more than 20 times
He never took his weapons off safety, report says
Officers remain on active duty; no legal action has been taken
Tucson, Arizona (CNN) -- A U.S. Marine who died in a flurry of bullets during a drug raid near Tucson never fired on the SWAT team that stormed his house, a report by the Pima County Sheriff's Department shows.
The revelation was contained in an internal investigation released by the department Thursday.
Jose Guerena died May 5 after a SWAT team descended on his home in a Tucson suburb with a search warrant. His home was one of four believed to be associated with a drug smuggling operation in the area.
A video released Thursday by the sheriff's department shows the uniformed SWAT team pulling up outside his house, sounding their sirens, banging on the front door -- before kicking it in -- and opening fire shortly after entering the home.
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Marine never fired on SWAT officers who fatally shot him
Friday, May 20, 2011
Family Demands Answers in SWAT Team Killing of Arizona Ex-Marine
Family Demands Answers in SWAT Team Killing of Arizona Ex-Marine
by ELLEN TUMPOSKY
May 19, 2011
The family of an ex-Marine who was gunned down in his home by a Pima County, Ariz., SWAT team firing 71 shots is demanding some answers.
Jose Guerena, 26, died the morning of May 5. He was asleep in his Tuscon home after working a night shift at the Asarco copper mine when his wife, Vanessa, saw the armed SWAT team outside her youngest son's bedroom window.
"She saw a man pointing at her with a gun," said Reyna Ortiz, 29, a relative who is caring for Vanessa and her children. Ortiz said Vanessa Guerena yelled, "Don't shoot! I have a baby!"
Vanessa thought the gunman might be part of a home invasion -- a frequent occurrence in Tucson -- Ortiz said. She shouted for her husband in the next room, and he woke up and told his wife to hide in the closet with the child, Joel, 4.
Guerena grabbed his assault rifle and was pointing it at the SWAT team, which was trying to serve a narcotics search warrant as part of a multihouse drug crackdown, when the team broke down the door. At first the Pima County Sheriff's Office said that Guerena fired first, but Wednesday officials backtracked and said he had not. "The safety was on and he could not fire," according to the sheriff's statement.
SWAT team members fired 71 times and hit Guerena -- an Iraq War veteran -- 60 times, police said.
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Family Demands Answers in SWAT Team Killing
Was Marine killed for living in wrong neighborhood
by ELLEN TUMPOSKY
May 19, 2011
The family of an ex-Marine who was gunned down in his home by a Pima County, Ariz., SWAT team firing 71 shots is demanding some answers.
Jose Guerena, 26, died the morning of May 5. He was asleep in his Tuscon home after working a night shift at the Asarco copper mine when his wife, Vanessa, saw the armed SWAT team outside her youngest son's bedroom window.
"She saw a man pointing at her with a gun," said Reyna Ortiz, 29, a relative who is caring for Vanessa and her children. Ortiz said Vanessa Guerena yelled, "Don't shoot! I have a baby!"
Vanessa thought the gunman might be part of a home invasion -- a frequent occurrence in Tucson -- Ortiz said. She shouted for her husband in the next room, and he woke up and told his wife to hide in the closet with the child, Joel, 4.
Guerena grabbed his assault rifle and was pointing it at the SWAT team, which was trying to serve a narcotics search warrant as part of a multihouse drug crackdown, when the team broke down the door. At first the Pima County Sheriff's Office said that Guerena fired first, but Wednesday officials backtracked and said he had not. "The safety was on and he could not fire," according to the sheriff's statement.
SWAT team members fired 71 times and hit Guerena -- an Iraq War veteran -- 60 times, police said.
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Family Demands Answers in SWAT Team Killing
Was Marine killed for living in wrong neighborhood
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Was Marine killed for living in the wrong neighborhood?
SWAT officers go to the home of a veteran Marine to search the house for drugs with a "narcotics conspiracy search warrant" but found nothing.
Authorities tell us three other neighborhood homes were targeted Thursday, all tied to a narcotics conspiracy.but this Marine came home from work, went to sleep and was woken up by screams, smashing glass and bullets. Did they know anything about this veteran or his family? Did they have any clue if he was involved with drugs or if he just lived in the wrong neighborhood? It looks like they didn't know very much at all.
Marine killed by SWAT was acting in defense, says family
Posted: May 10, 2011 9:14 PM
Reporter: Joel Waldman
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN9-TV) - A smashed window and a barrage of bullet holes might be the type of scene a battle-hardened marine finds in a war zone; not the Tucson home he shares with his two children and wife, "I saw this guy pointing me at the window. So, I got scared. And, I got like, ‘Please don't shoot, I have a baby. I put my baby (down). (And I) put bag in window. And, I yell ‘Jose! Jose! Wake up!" explained wife Vanessa Guerena.
Husband Jose had just come home from working at the mine. His wife Vanessa said he had just slept two hours, only to wake up to chaos in his house. It was Pima County SWAT executing a narcotics conspiracy search warrant.
SWAT gunned Jose down with 71-rounds fired in just about 7-seconds; officials say they did not expect Vanessa to be home with four year old son Joel, who has questions like so many others, "The only thing he asked me, "Mom, my dad a bad guy? They killed my dad! Police killed my dad? Why? What did my dad do?" explained Guerena.read more here
Marine killed by SWAT was acting in defense
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
SWAT team stand off ends when veteran takes his own life
New concerns about veterans and PTSD
May 9, 2011
By Bryan Navarro
WHITE CITY, Ore. -- A SWAT team stand off with a veteran has health experts concerned about PTSD, or "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder."
The stand-off happened Sunday evening in Rogue River and ended with the subject committing suicide.
Police officials did not return calls regarding the incident and could not comment whether post-traumatic stress disorder played a role.
Veteran psychologists say it may be easy to categorize actions as PTSD symptoms, but it can be harmful to do so.
Officials with the V.A. Dom in White City say the percentage of veterans who are diagnosed with PTSD is between 30 and 40% of all vets.
They believe the number of veterans diagnosed with the disorder has increased during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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New concerns about veterans and PTSD
May 9, 2011
By Bryan Navarro
WHITE CITY, Ore. -- A SWAT team stand off with a veteran has health experts concerned about PTSD, or "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder."
The stand-off happened Sunday evening in Rogue River and ended with the subject committing suicide.
Police officials did not return calls regarding the incident and could not comment whether post-traumatic stress disorder played a role.
Veteran psychologists say it may be easy to categorize actions as PTSD symptoms, but it can be harmful to do so.
Officials with the V.A. Dom in White City say the percentage of veterans who are diagnosed with PTSD is between 30 and 40% of all vets.
They believe the number of veterans diagnosed with the disorder has increased during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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New concerns about veterans and PTSD
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
SWAT finds, arrests soldier who allegedly shot at wife
SWAT finds, arrests soldier who allegedly shot at wife
STACIA GLENN - Staff writer
Pierce County sheriff’s deputies on Sunday were looking for a soldier who shot at his wife during an argument and left his 2-year-old daughter alone for hours after he escaped the apartment while SWAT was called to respond.
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SWAT finds, arrests soldier who allegedly shot at wife
STACIA GLENN - Staff writer
Pierce County sheriff’s deputies on Sunday were looking for a soldier who shot at his wife during an argument and left his 2-year-old daughter alone for hours after he escaped the apartment while SWAT was called to respond.
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SWAT finds, arrests soldier who allegedly shot at wife
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