Tortured by symptoms of PTSD, turned away by an overbooked Veterans Administration hospital\u2014his mother says she pleaded with doctors to let him sleep on the hospital floor\u2014Sims was shot by Kansas City police on Sunday after they answered a neighbor\u2019s 911 call. Police say Sims was firing a gun from inside his parents\u2019 home and was killed when he moved to the garage and leveled the weapon at the SWAT team.<\/p>\n
Family members don\u2019t believe that the 23-year-old veteran was a threat to police. \u201cWith his sniper training, if he was shooting at them he would\u2019ve hit them,\u201d his sister Shawnda Anderson told TIME. But everyone could agree that the root cause of the confrontation was that Staff Sergeant Sims was falling to pieces, and felt like he had nowhere to turn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It sounds to me that it more of “suicide by cops” situation, especially since none of the police were injured and folks who are victims of PTS are a bigger danger to themselves than they are to others.<\/p>\n
In April, after pleading guilty to two counts of domestic violence, Sims came under the supervision of Municipal Court Presiding Judge Ardie Bland. Widely admired for his work with troubled veterans, Bland placed Sims on probation through a program jointly run by the court and the V.A. Launched in 2009, the Veterans\u2019 Treatment Court tries to restore veterans to \u201claw abiding, productive lives within the country they have defended,\u201d according to municipal court spokesperson Benita Jones. The probation was to include intensive treatment, random drug testing, and frequent reviews.<\/p>\n
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Instead, the intensive treatment envisioned by the special court failed to materialize in time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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