{"id":141529,"date":"2023-05-19T13:55:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T17:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=141529"},"modified":"2023-05-19T13:55:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T17:55:59","slug":"indiana-army-veteran-convicted-of-murder-despite-partially-blaming-ptsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=141529","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Army veteran convicted of murder, despite partially blaming PTSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Two-people-fighting-between-the-road-and-townhomes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-141531\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Two-people-fighting-between-the-road-and-townhomes-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Two-people-fighting-between-the-road-and-townhomes-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Two-people-fighting-between-the-road-and-townhomes-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Two-people-fighting-between-the-road-and-townhomes-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Two-people-fighting-between-the-road-and-townhomes-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Two-people-fighting-between-the-road-and-townhomes.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was a road rage incident involving Dustin E. Passarelli and the murder victim, Mustafa Ayoubi. Passarelli claimed that Ayoubi had either thrown something at his vehicle, or collided with him. Passarelli followed Ayoubi to an apartment complex. During the altercation, Ayoubi broke one of Passarelli&#8217;s car windows with a punch. Witnesses argued that Passarelli lobbed religion and ethnicity related insults at Ayoubi, and even called for him to return to his country.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>From Fox News:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Passarelli shot and killed Ayoubi following a road rage incident on Interstate 465 that led to Passarelli following Ayoubi to an apartment complex on the city&#8217;s northwest side, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Passarelli told police that Ayoubi either threw something at his car or collided with it on the highway and that after he followed Ayoubi to the apartment complex, Ayoubi broke one of Passarelli&#8217;s car windows with a punch.<\/p>\n<p>The defense argued that Passarelli was within his rights to fire at Ayoubi because it was self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple witnesses said Passarelli and Ayoubi shouted inflammatory remarks at each other in front of a townhome. They said Passarelli yelled religious and ethnic insults at the unarmed Ayoubi, including, &#8220;Go back to your country,&#8221; shortly before he shot him.<\/p>\n<p>Passarelli claimed that post-traumatic stress disorder he developed during his time in the Army contributed to his behavior on the highway and was partially to blame for the shooting. But Passarelli&#8217;s mental evaluation and PTSD claims were ruled inadmissible in court.<\/p>\n<p>Passarelli was not charged with a hate crime. The FBI had said it was looking into whether Ayoubi&#8217;s killing involved a federal civil rights violation, but no federal charges were ever filed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News has the balance of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/indiana-army-vet-convicted-murder-muslim-mans-2019-road-rage-shooting\">story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a road rage incident involving Dustin E. Passarelli and the murder victim, Mustafa Ayoubi. &hellip; <a title=\"Indiana Army veteran convicted of murder, despite partially blaming PTSD\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=141529\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indiana Army veteran convicted of murder, despite partially blaming PTSD<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}