Tag: traumatic brain injury
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Former Colorado Springs doctor sentenced for shooting spree
A former Colorado Springs physician was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in prison for a shooting “frenzy” that left one person injured last year. According to previous reporting by The Gazette, Rupesh Jain, 54, fired shots inside his own apartment near Interquest and Voyager parkways and wounded a sleeping neighbor before shooting into two Key…
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Former area doctor sentenced for shooting spree
A former El Paso County physician was sentenced in late September to 12 years in prison for a shooting “frenzy” that left one person injured last year. Rupesh Jain, 54, fired shots inside his own apartment near Interquest and Voyager parkways and wounded a sleeping neighbor before shooting into two Key Bank locations and a…
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Former area doctor sentenced for shooting spree
A former El Paso County physician was sentenced in late September to 12 years in prison for a shooting “frenzy” that left one person injured last year. Rupesh Jain, 54, fired shots inside his own apartment near Interquest and Voyager parkways and wounded a sleeping neighbor before shooting into two Key Bank locations and a…
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Fatal hit-and-run suspect ruled incompetent to stand trial over childhood brain injury
After several hours of testimony spanning multiple hearings — focused mostly on a traumatic brain injury from his childhood — an El Paso County judge ruled the man accused of dragging a woman 300 feet during a fatal hit and run in November is incompetent to stand trial and cannot be restored to competency. The…
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A flawed system: How Army Special Forces mental health care is failing elite soldiers
Retired Special Forces Sgt. 1st Class Greg Walker details how a flawed mental health care system has yielded what he calls ‘hideous results’ for soldiers like Green Beret Matthew Livelsberger.
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Appeals court: Defendant’s traumatic brain injury not a basis for finding life sentence unconstitutional
Despite the state legislature’s recognition that traumatic brain injuries lead to a greater risk of involvement with the criminal justice system, Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday ruled such injuries do not make a defendant’s life sentence cruel and unusual. Stanley Paul Jurgevich, who is serving life in prison with the possibility of parole for his 1988…