Information is coming out that the 2nd Ft. Hood shooter had mental issues.
ORT HOOD (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – A soldier opened fire Wednesday on fellow service members at the Fort Hood military base, killing three people and wounding 16 before committing suicide at the same post where more than a dozen people were slain in a 2009 attack, authorities said.
The shooter, who served in Iraq in 2011, had been undergoing an assessment to determine whether he had post-traumatic stress disorder, according to Lt. Gen. Mark A. Milley, the senior officer on the base. He was also undergoing psychiatric treatment for depression.
There was no indication the attack was related to terrorism, Milley said.
We need as a nation to o something about mental health. Instead of having that discussion, the Progressives will try to use this for gun control.
RIP to the dead.
Update: It turns out that the shooter Ivan Lopez was on Ambien.
Lopez’s mother Carmen Lopez died in Puerto Rico last year, and he was enraged at the Army for at first refusing to let him attend her services, a childhood pal told El Nuevo Dia, a Puerto Rican newspaper.
Military brass later relented and he was given a 24-hour pass to attend her funeral.
Lopez seemed fine in a conversation with the friend two days before the killings, the paper said – but did mention that he’d had a beef with someone at the sprawling base.
“It seems he had an argument with someone back at base. Seems that he had been robbed or something,” the pal told the paper.
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Lopez did report a traumatic brain injury upon his return to the US, and had a number of mental health issues and was receiving psychiatric help for depression and anxiety.
He was also on medication for his problems, including Ambien for a sleep disorder.
There was no record that there was any sign he was likely to commit violence either against himself or others, “so the plan [going] forward was just to continue to monitor and treat him as deemed appropriate,” he said.
We need to improve how we deal with people with mental health issues.
