Gunman and 3 Hostages Found Dead at California Veterans Home
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“This is a tragic piece of news one that we were really hoping we wouldn’t have to come before the public to give,” Chief Childs said at a brief news conference. The Associated Press, citing Defense Department records, said Mr. Wong was an Army more info https://www.canadagooseoutleta.com Cheap Canada Goose veteran who had served in Afghanistan, and the Napa County statement cheap canada goose uk said he had been associated with the Yountville facility’s Pathway Home treatment program.
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Ms. Smith had been working as the director of development and canada goose factory sale communication at Pathway since January, according to her LinkedIn profile.
“They were having cake and toasting, apparently he just walked in with this rifle,” Mr. Kamer said.
Fernando Juarez, 36, of Napa, Calif., told The Press Democrat that his 22 year old sister, a caregiver at Pathway, exchanged text messages with her family while sheltering in place at the home.
Mr. Juarez said she could hear people yelling “Get down! Get down!” and asked him to make sure her 3 year old son would be cared for if she didn’t make it out alive.
The Canada Goose Online Yountville center is the largest veterans home in the country, canada goose coats according to state officials. The campus, in the heart of California’s wine country, houses about 1,000 military veterans, providing buy canada goose jacket independent living, dementia care and skilled nursing care for its residents.
After the Civil War, many states established veterans homes to care for the thousands of injured soldiers returning from war. Yountville canadian goose jacket was California’s first, canada goose coats on sale established in 1884 on a sprawling, idyllic site that now consists of stucco and red tile roof dormitories, a library, a swimming pool and a golf course.
State homes expanded after World War I, when the federal government began paying states a per diem to house and care for older and disabled veterans. They are operated by the states but largely canada goose uk black friday funded canada goose clearance by the Department of Veterans Affairs. There are now 153 state veterans homes across the country, according Canada Goose sale to the National buy canada goose jacket cheap Association of State Veterans Homes.
The federal government has provided about $90 million for the program each year, but states and veterans’ advocates have long complained of a lack of funds, leaving a cheap Canada Goose backlog of state requests of more than $1 billion, according to the association.
The state systems have about 30,000 beds and are the largest provider of domicile and skilled nursing care for veterans.
On Saturday uk canada goose morning, President Trump expressed condolences for “the loss of three incredible women” in Yountville.
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Mr. Dodd said of the veterans home complex: “This is an institution in our county and has been for over a century. A lot of these veterans were recently evacuated canada goose clearance sale because of the serious wildfires in the mountains behind the veterans home.”.
