“100%. They are 100% responsible for what they did to my husband. They killed my husband.”-Rondha Gibson, blaming the Veterans Administration for her husband’s death because they took him off his PTSD meds and cancelled his benefits
On December 12 Las Vegas police shot and killed a 1991 Persian Gulf War veteran. They shot him seven times in the back of the head as he sat in his car.
According to newly released police report, cops responded to claims of an attempted burglary. Apartment residents said two men tried to break into an apartment, failed and then took off in a white Cadillac. As the cops were writing down the info, a white Cadillac pulled into the apartment parking lot.
The cops surrounded the car, the driver apparently panicked a tried to get away but ran into a parked police car. For 30 minutes the cops yelled at him to get out of the car. They decided to shoot a bean bag to break a window, and then spray riot control gas into the car. For some reason another cop grabbed a semi-automatic AR-15 assault rifle. When the one cop fired the bean bag round, the cop with the AR-15 fired also. The reason has yet to be revealed.
The cop with the AR-15 fired seven times into the back of the war veteran’s head. The AR-15 is a semi-automatic version of the automatic military M16. What that means is that the cop had to pull the trigger seven times to fire seven rounds!
Police officials are investigating why the cop with the AR-15 fired seven rounds off, when that was obviously not part of the plan to get the veteran out of his car.
By the way, the reason why the veteran pulled into the apartment parking lot was because he lived there! He and his wife moved in after losing their house! There are plenty of white Cadillacs in Las Vegas, dumb cops!
It turns out the Gulf War veteran, Stanley Gibson, had lost his Veterans benefits, was taken off his PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) meds, and then lost his house! A social worker who works with veterans blames the Veterans Administration for what happened: “They’re just trying to get away with the minimal that they can, and if they dance you around the block enough you’ll go away.”-Marsha Oritt, social worker
Gibson and his wife had fought the gradual reductions in his benefits for years, but the VA won out. Rhonda Gibson says the VA totally blew them off: “If they had just listened to the man, listened to me and stopped canceling his appointments and make sure he had his medications on time, we would have been ok.”
Social worker Marsha Oritt says the VA has made the Gibson’s life a living hell: “It was just a constant nightmare for them both. Lots of tears. Lots of frustration. Lots of upset.”