Remembering Casey Owens -
Found this story online today and just thought I should share. This former Marine never quite recovered from his experience with war and succumbed to suicide this week.
Local Iraq war veteran dies of suicide
by Chad Abraham, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Friday, October 17, 2014
Aspen resident Casey Owens, a veteran of Iraq who lost his legs in the war, was found dead in his home Wednesday evening after he took his own life.
According to a statement from the Pitkin County Coroner’s Office, Owens died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Before a 2004 roadside bomb struck his Humvee when he was 22, Owens had had his heart set on being a career Marine, said his friend, Carole Gunther, on Thursday. Owens, who achieved the rank of corporal, was 32.
“He struggled with that for the last several years,” she said ...
More on Casey here: http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/164251
