A Fort Carson soldier who was shot Sept. 22 during a confrontation with Army police at his apartment on post was sent home early from Iraq in July after becoming suicidal, his wife said.
Spec. Anthony Nicolas Jumangit, 23, had repeatedly warned supervisors that he didn’t believe he was mentally fit to deploy in March after a traumatic combat tour that ended in 2008, his wife, Rebecca Jumangit, told The Gazette.
After his early return, Jumangit complained that his antidepressant medication wasn’t working, and he struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder so severe that he avoided driving and visiting crowded stores, she said.
“They just ignored him,” she said.
Jumangit, of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, was shot in the hand during a confrontation inside a four-plex apartment he shared with his wife and their three children.
Police were responding to a call by Rebecca Jumangit that her husband was threatening to cut himself with a knife. Fort Carson spokeswoman Dee McNutt said after the shooting that the soldier had advanced on officers with the weapon.
