The mom of the military vet accused in an unprovoked hatchet attack on an ATM customer in Manhattan said Wednesday that he suffered from “pure madness” he blamed on his combat experience.
A distraught Sarah Garcia said her son, Aaron Garcia, 37, spent six years in the US Army, with his last tour of duty in Iraq.
“A few years after he came back, he started showing signs of decline,” she said by phone from her home in The Bronx.
“At first, I thought he was just being obnoxious. He’d put the blame on me for not realizing that he didn’t go into the Boy Scouts, he went into the Army, seeing dead bodies,” she said.
Sarah, 64, said Aaron received some mental-health treatment at a Veterans Administration hospital but that it had no effect on his declining condition.
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