A 36 year old man stormed into The Pathway Home veteran care facility on Friday, March 9th in Yountville, California with ammunition hanging from his neck and a high-powered rifle in his hands. The Pathway Home was a program started in 2008 on the large Veterans Home of California property (widely recognized as the largest residential setting for veterans in the United States) with the sole intention of treating veterans of post-9/11 wars suffering from illnesses related to combat.
Albert Wong was an Army veteran who spent a year in Afghanistan from April 2011 to March 2012. He returned home severely traumatized and was admitted to the Yountville facility to receive care for his PTSD, a program which he was ultimately ejected from for ‘hostile behavior.’
Wong entered the facility on Monday and demanded that three staff members, all women—one of whom was 6 months pregnant—stay while everyone else in the building was free to go. Those women were Jennifer Golick (clinic director), 42, Christine Loeber (executive director), 48 , and the pregnant Jennifer Gonzales (PTSD expert), 32. Haley Rekdahl, one of the women allowed to leave the premises by Albert Wong, said that she knew the reason Wong chose those three women specifically but did not reveal anymore information to the public.
A motive and specific details concerning the situation have not yet been fully divulged. Speculation is that Wong killed the three women involved in his ouster from the program.