{"id":39774,"date":"2014-02-13T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39774"},"modified":"2014-02-13T07:58:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T12:58:14","slug":"vet-denied-benefits-killed-by-cops-in-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39774","title":{"rendered":"Vet denied benefits, killed by cops in WA (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: According to one of our readers, there’s reasonable doubt that Killmer actually filed a claim with the VA. He was getting medical treatment from them, however.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eagle Keeper sent us this article last night about Jedadiah Zillmer, who according to the article, was shot in the foot in Afghanistan, lost a piece of his toe, got out of the Army, applied for VA benefits, was denied, and threatened to kill civilians, then finally was shot by police. I checked AKO and there was no Jedadiah Zillmer, but he got out in mid-2012. By itself that doesn’t mean anything. But there were claims on his Facebook page that Zillmer was a sniper. According to the article, Zillmer’s family says that he was denied VA benefits because “the nurse who helped treat him failed to check boxes on paperwork indicating whether he was personally familiar with the limitations that the injury had created”. <\/p>\n

See, it gets fishy smelling. But facts that aren’t in dispute follow<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich said Wednesday that the young man had threatened to shoot civilians. Zillmer claimed to be a U.S. Army sniper on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n

He was stopped by pursuing law enforcement near the intersection of Sullivan Road and Indiana Avenue. \u201cIf he would have gotten to the mall, something tragic may have happened,\u201d Knezovich said.<\/p>\n

The man was wearing body armor and pointed a gun at himself while threatening to shoot civilians, Knezovich said.<\/p>\n

Although authorities have yet to identify Zillmer, the young man\u2019s friends and family have confirmed his identity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When I see someone post on Facebook that they were a sniper, my first reaction is to disbelieve them. It indicates that they’re trying to draw attention to themselves. I don’t know any real snipers because real snipers are just like the other folks who just keep it to themselves. They know who they are. Just like the Rangers, SEALs, Special Forces folks who don’t put that shit on their Facebook profiles.<\/p>\n

I have to think that there was more than a checked box at issue here. And I doubt the denial of the benefits was the cause of Zillmer’s theater. But it sure makes for good press, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: According to one of our readers, there’s reasonable doubt that Killmer actually filed a claim … Vet denied benefits, killed by cops in WA (Updated)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39774","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}