Standoff prompts daycare evacuation (police & 23 yr old back from Iraq)

BREAKING NEWS: Standoff prompts daycare evacuation

Police have evacuated a northeast Albuquerque daycare near a standoff between police and a 23-year-old man just back from Iraq.

Albuquerque police say the man is holed up in his garage near the intersection of Phoenix and Muriel.

A couple dozen kids were evacuated from the daycare just down the street. Also, police put Matheson Park Elementary on lockdown, although only staff members are in the building.

Police are trying to make contact with the man, who they believe may have post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Army: Florissant (MO) soldier killed herself

The military concluded that a Florissant woman killed herself while serving in the Army in Iraq last year, her father said Wednesday.

John Johnson said an military investigator told him during a telephone conversation Friday that his daughter, Army Pfc. LaVena Johnson, died from an intentional "self-inflicted wound."

But Johnson said he doesn’t agree with the military’s findings. He said he believes his 19-year-old daughter "was murdered."

"I don’t feel any different today than when they told me this," Johnson said. "I told him that is what I expected him to say. . . I told him it is not over."

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