Colorado Shooting | 05/18/2009 9:20 am
Soldier Investigated in Harvard Student's Shooting
Lisa Baumann will be buried tomorrow, one week after allegedly being shot to death by a Fort Carson, Colorado, soldier named Thomas Whoolly.
Baumann, a 19-year-old Harvard student who was living in Colorado Springs, died last week after Whoolly shot her with a shotgun and accidentally shot himself in the leg, say police. He is being investigated for possible manslaughter and was released on a $10,000 bond, reports Durango Herald News.
While certainly tragic, Baumann’s murder isn’t isolated. The paper also reports that this is the sixth murder connected to a Fort Carson soldier since 2007. It also comes a week after a soldier in Iraq opened fire on his comrades, killing five.
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Amazing. We are forgetting the consequences of these wars made from lies.The military standards were abandoned due to the number of soldiers recruited. We make laws that killing is wrong. Then send these young people over and tell them shoot away. Kids,families etc they are the enemy. The real enemy was sitting behind a desk. They now suffer and war criminals walk free.
SG, I agree this is tragic but think of all the 100 of thousands of Soldiers who come home and dont do this…Also I am not sure about this unit but my hubby’s unit could not fire unless they were fired on first…so there is not that "go shoot em up attitude". My hubby unit watched as a husband shot his wife b/c she was holding an American Flag waving to them as they drove by & since he didnt pose a threat to them, there wasnt anything they could do.
Killing is wrong when its in cold blook, killing when your defending yourself b/c your being shot at, is not murder.
And let me go one further and remind everyone that I am not for this war, yes we were lied to to start this war and that if we could leave without Iraq going to the terrorists then I say bring them all home. A young man from my Church is there right now, just got to Baghdad last week.
This is a subject (PTSD) that is near and dear to my heart. My son was in Iraq, in the first wave as a medic. He returned to us (thank God) with no bodily harm but with PTSD. The posters that advertised PTSD help were graffitied with comments like ‘for pussies and wussies’ so I don’t blame these guys for trying to ‘deal’ with it on their own. My son finally admitted his problem when he was preparing to return to Iraq and the Army told him the wait list was too long and he was going back or getting booted out. He chose being dicharged…He was put on the streets for society to deal with…no benefits, no medical help. I almost lost him as he was depressed and threatened suicide. Talk about were to turn…I want ot share a wb site that a good friend found for me..Swords-to Plowshares…These people have given my son hope and his life has finally turned around…I pray for this soldier and his family and the family of the lady that was shot…