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Tuesday, April 16, 2019

'A national crisis': Three veterans commit suicide outside VA hospitals across five days in two different states

Three U.S. military veterans have taken their own lives within five days of one another at VA facilities in Georgia and Texas.

29-year-old Gary Pressley was discovered inside a car in the parking lot of Carl Vinson VA Medical Center in Dublin, Georgia on April 5.

Pressley was found with a gunshot wound to his chest. He was pronounced dead at 8.45pm, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

He had been medically discharged in 2012 after a car accident but had been struggling with his mental health ever since.

Concerned family members, including his mother, Machelle Wilson, told WMAZ-TV that his sister called the VA to tell them her brother was threatening suicide.

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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 16, 2019 at 7:33 PM

    Somebody will turn this into an anti-gun rant.

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  2. AnonymousApril 16, 2019 at 7:33 PM

    RIP, Brothers.

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  3. AnonymousApril 16, 2019 at 8:25 PM

    When will this country make its veterans a priority? We've had presidents who were vets and they did not make a difference.

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  4. AnonymousApril 16, 2019 at 10:22 PM

    There's really no explanation but poor management and legislators only being at all interested for five or six months at the end of every two years, then not at all.
    The Democrats have the ball for two years. Don't expect it to move more than a couple of yards down field, if at all.

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  5. AnonymousApril 16, 2019 at 10:39 PM

    That's where the money SHOULD be going!!! Help them!!!

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