California veterans home will not reopen after shooting
UPDATE: 7/23/2018 1:45 p.m. A California veterans home where an expelled client killed himself after fatally shooting three health workers is closing for good.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported Sunday that the nonprofit Pathway Home will relinquish its lease at Yountville’s Veterans Home of California and move to help veterans in other ways.
The center, which treated combat veterans for post-traumatic stress syndrome and other mental health disorders, suspended operations indefinitely after the March 9 shooting.
Albert Wong, who was 36, killed program director Christine Loeber, therapist Jennifer Golick, and psychologist Jennifer Gonzales Shushereba, who was pregnant.
Pathway Home spokesman Larry Kamer said the change was inevitable after the shootings.
Instead of a residential program, Pathway Home will distribute a resource guide for other organizations that work to help soldiers reintegrate into society.
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A California mental health program where a combat veteran killed three workers is closing.
The Pathway Home board of directors announced Wednesday that it was suspending its operations indefinitely at the country’s largest veterans home.
Pathway counseled veterans with post-traumatic stress syndrome and brain injuries sustained in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
Authorities say Albert Wong fatally shot two Pathway therapists and the program’s director Friday. The 36-year-old Wong had recently been expelled from the in-patient program. He also was found dead.
Pathway was housed in a building on the campus of the California Veterans Home in Yountville.
Pathway spokesman Larry Kamer said the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs and local nonprofits will now help veterans enrolled in the program.
