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When Albert Wong returned from an Army deployment in Afghanistan in 2013, he knew it had affected him. He had trouble adjusting to regular life, couldn\u2019t sleep at night and was hyper-vigilant about his surroundings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when he found a treatment program for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars<\/a> who suffer from post-traumatic stress or traumatic brain injuries, he saw it as a way to get help and readjust to civilian life, said Cissy Sherr, who was his legal guardian and raised him for several years as a child. Until he was recently expelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, police said Wong slipped into a going-away party at the program, The Pathway Home, and took three employees hostage<\/a>. After an hours-long standoff, Wong and the three female workers were all found dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a child, Wong had always dreamed of joining the Army, said Sherr, who began caring for him when he was 6 after his father died and his mother developed medical issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe had a lot of role models in the Army,\u201d Sherr said Saturday in an interview with The Associated Press. \u201cHe was patriotic and he wanted to do that forever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sherr and her husband raised Wong for several years, enrolled him in Catholic school and signed him up for baseball, basketball and track teams. Together, they traveled to Florida, Hawaii and Boston, where he experienced snow for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe was a pretty happy-go-lucky kid,\u201d Sherr said. \u201cHe always had a smile on his face.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A woman, who declined to give her name, cries after placing flowers at a sign at the Veterans Home of California, the morning after a hostage situation in Yountville, Calif., on Saturday, March 10, 2018. (Josh Edelson\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When Wong became a teenager and Sherr and her husband worked full-time, they decided to put him in foster care. He stayed with a foster father in San Francisco who had other teenage boys and he attended high school near San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wong served in the Army Reserve from 1998 until 2002, enlisted for active duty in May 2010 and was deployed to Afghanistan in April 2011, according to military records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was a decorated soldier and was awarded the Expert Marksmanship Badge. But that also meant Wong was tasked with dangerous assignments, where he saw \u201creally horrible things\u201d that affected his mental well-being, Sherr said. He sometimes called her before he\u2019d go on a mission, when Army officials told the soldiers to call their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI had the impression he was kind of put in harm\u2019s way, knowing that he didn\u2019t have a family,\u201d she said. \u201cHe didn\u2019t seem the least bit resentful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sherr said after Wong was honorably discharged from the Army in 2013, he planned to enroll in school and earn a degree in computer programming and business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe loved computers and he liked music. He was thoughtful and independent,\u201d Sherr said. \u201cHe didn\u2019t have a traditional upbringing but still he became a fine young man.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wong, who had a passion for working out at the gym, would often bring his ailing mother her favorite foods and spent a lot of time with her before she died last year, Sherr said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But post-traumatic stress affected his ability to adjust to everyday life, Sherr said. He had trouble sleeping and was always wary of his surroundings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think he realized that it started to catch up with him,\u201d she said. \u201cA couple of years ago, he told us if a door opens unexpectedly, I ask, \u2018What is that?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wong told Sherr he had found a program at the veterans home in Yountville, California, and had met people who helped him enroll in a treatment program. He was also receiving assistance at a veterans hospital in San Francisco, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He told Sherr: \u201cI think I\u2019m going to get a lot of help from this program,\u201d she said, seeing the program as a possible path to recovery with other veterans in a similar position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officials have declined to provide additional information about why Wong was thrown out of the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But they say the former Army rifleman went to the center about 50 miles (85 kilometers) north of San Francisco Friday morning before exchanging gunfire with police and holding the women hostage in a room inside the center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The victims were identified as Executive Director Christine Loeber, 48; Clinical Director Jennifer Golick, 42; and Jennifer Gonzales Shushereba, 32, a clinical psychologist with the San Francisco Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the shooting, John Dunbar, the mayor of Yountville and a member of The Pathway Home\u2019s board of directors, said Wong was \u201cone of our heroes who clearly had demons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shooting has left Sherr with more questions than answers. Chief among them: Why did it happen and could more have been done to help Wong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn less than a year \u2014 less than half a year \u2014 things started to unravel,\u201d she said. \u201cHe may have been without any resources to support him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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