Posted on 01/31/2022 6:53:31 AM PST by lowbridge
An upstairs neighbor, a veteran with PTSD problems, smashes through the door of his downstairs neighbor with a machete in hand, with an intent to kill. The downstairs neighbor uses a gun to defend himself. The upstairs neighbor survived.
This wasn't their first confrontation. Sometime earlier the guy upstairs had physically assaulted the guy downstairs for which he was sentenced to probation.
This second incident occured in 2013 and the veteran was sentenced in 2015 to 15 years.
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Samuel L. Jackson?...................
What strange place was this has no other place to live...?
Never mind, don’t care enough to know.
“The upstairs neighbor survived. “
That was the problem.
empty the mag - as taught - over and over again.
Our Heros with PTSD need our care and help.
But come after me and mine?
You’re going down. With prejudice.
Looks a lot more like Bob Odenkirk in the film “Nobody”.
This happened almost 10 years ago WHY IS IT POSTED NOW?
My sister lived in an apartment about 20 years ago where a similar incident happened, but thankfully she moved out just a couple of months later. We were visiting from out of state, and she had a family party. My brother had two young sons at the time, and my kids were tweens. The little ones were playing with cars and trucks and whizzing them across the floor. We weren’t overly loud, but there were probably a dozen of us there that day. Next thing we knew, a guy banged on the front door, with his camo on and a pistol, told us to quiet down, he was back from Iraq and he was just enraged. We did try to keep it down after that but we were afraid he was going to lose control. My brother talked calmly with him in the hallway, but the other guy still threatened all of us. I’m very glad my sister got out from that particular rental situation. This guy sounds just like the one that lived in her building.
A very good question.
*** Our Heros with PTSD need our care and help.
But come after me and mine?
You’re going down. With prejudice.***
So agree. I wish there were real help.
Looks like the apartment management at some point replaced a solid exterior door with a cheap bedroom door.
I know nothing of ptsd as having never been at war
My dad and his cousin joined the Marines together in early 1942. They fought in two major pacific battles. My dad refused to talk about them as did his cousin (and best buddy). Dad would just say….take my word for it….you don’t want to see what I saw.
I’ve heard stories from other WW 2 vets and they all stop before the real gruesome parts. My dad told me how the ‘caught’ fish with TNT and a neighbor told me how in Europe they would kill cattle with an axe for their next meal. Dad might have had some PTSD or shell shock or whatever the politically correct current term for it is. But I never witnessed it.
Saw it as an interesting story (that I didn’t learn about until today) which regards the self defense uses of firearms.
C’mon. Articles about old incidents are routinely posted on this site (such as incidents that occured in the Civil War). This place isn’t a CURRENT events site only.
WWII soldiers and Marines we shipped home, literally shipped, a month or so at sea with fellow combat veterans sharing stories of their experiences with people who had similar horrifying memories.
I think this served as an effective talk therapy for many of them. They got home somewhat decompressed. They got home knowing that their experiences were shared with a large cohort of others with similar experiences, and arrived with a sense of being normal.
Today?
Combat veterans are dumped back into a civilian scene within hours of being in an active combat zone, surrounded by an 'unreal' normalcy, and [an all too accurate] sense that no one they meet can ever really understand what they have been through.
Another example of PTSD that’s unimportant to the industry that’s been paid handsomely to try and help these kinds of cases. This guy was likely never diagnosed, or if he was - prescribed and released to the streets. It’s a sad shame.
The veteran was 52 years old at the time. What war or extraordinary war stress caused his “PTSD?” Where did he serve? What drugs did he manage to get himself put on afterwards? Were there illegal drugs in his system after he got shot by somebody in their own apartment protecting themselves?
I’m sorry, but this sounds like nothing but pure, drugged out crazy fenzy, frankly. Stop blaming crazy peoples’ actions on “PTSD.”
My dad and father in law were the same as your dad and uncle. Never talked about the gruesome stuff. Always said, you don’t want to see what I saw.
My father had survivor’s guilt, and I expect my FIL did as well, but I didn’t grow up under him. Both were in infantry in the Army. My dad however got reassigned to quartermaster duty. The day after he was moved out from his previous assignment, the one he would never talk about, his entire platoon was killed by enemy fire.
It took me having a real heart to heart with him in my late 30s to get that part out of him, the reassignment survivor’s guilt part. I never understood why he did some of the things he did, until he told me that, and then it started to make sense, just a little.
I realized he had been a very troubled man, and struggled with his own demons. War is ugly and devastating, but necessary sometimes. My dad passed just a few years after that conversation. I’m grateful that I got to hear him tell me just a piece of it. He spared me the gory details.
I don’t know those exact details. The fact that he had PTSD was brought up at his trial. Coupled with the claim that he suffered a head injury in a car accident that was to blame for his behavior.
“Our Heros with PTSD need our care and help.”
Instead they get drugs. Thus the insane violence.
Your vast knowledge of PTSD absolutely underwhelms me.
I am so underwhelmed I feel the great need to ask if you would, pretty please, go to your nearest VA or mental health group treating people, men and women, with PTSD.
Pretty please with lime rind on top,
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