{"id":72166,"date":"2017-05-19T14:40:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T18:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72166"},"modified":"2017-05-19T14:40:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T18:40:48","slug":"richard-rojas-kills-one-and-injures-a-score-of-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72166","title":{"rendered":"Richard Rojas kills one and injures a score of others"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve probably heard about Richard Rojas who drove his Honda Accord on a sidewalk in New York City. He killed Alyssa Elsman, an 18-year-old tourist from Michigan and injured Ava, her 13-year-old sister along with more than twenty others. The press loves to point out that he was a Navy veteran. According to Navy Times<\/a> in their Associated Press article, his time in the Navy was all fun and games;<\/p>\n

Rojas enlisted in the Navy in 2011 and was an electrician’s mate fireman apprentice. In 2012 he served aboard the U.S.S. Carney, a destroyer.<\/p>\n

Navy records show that in 2013 he spent two months at a naval brig in Charleston, South Carolina. They don’t indicate why.<\/p>\n

Rojas was based at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida, before being discharged in 2014 as the result of a special court martial, a Navy official said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A neighbor, Harrison Ramos, said Rojas wasn’t the same when he came back from active duty in 2014. Yeah well, that’s not what other neighbors told the police, according to the New York Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mayor de Blasio said family members told cops that Rojas had been struggling with mental health issues since he was a young boy.<\/p>\n

The incident \u201cappears to be intentional in the sense that he was troubled and lashing out,\u201d de Blasio told WNYC\u2019s Brian Lehrer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So he was a problem when he was a child and he was a problem as an adult – his military service had nothing to do with it. <\/p>\n

Now Rojas says that he heard voices in his head and that he expected police to kill him. That’s hard to believe, too – he had to be tackled and restrained by Ken Bradix, a Planet Hollywood bouncer, when Rojas tried to flee the scene. But crazed veteran electrician’s mate is easier to understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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