38 year old Cody Wayne Seals served in the U.S. Army between 2004 and 2008, doing more than one tour in Iraq. Between 2008 and now, His mother got sick, and he got sick and he moved in with his father.
Seals was shot and killed by a Fort Worth Police Department swat officer on June 1st, after a three hour stand off. He had barricaded himself inside his father's house in the 5700 block of Sixth Avenue.
Seals chambered a round and pointed a rifle at officers, then locked himself inside, according to police.
It was dark outside be the time Seals came outside holding both arms out in front of him while holding a light. Police said that it looked like a weapon-mounted lighting system, but it was only a flashlight. He turned toward an officer, still locked out in a shooting stance, and pointed the light at him. Believing officers were about to be fired upon, a SWAT officer fired his weapon an killed Seals.
"They spent hours negotiating, and they did not try to get in contact with me," Sandra Seals said. "I wanted to be involved. He was my baby."
"He was a good kid, and he was a good soldier, and he's being remembered as a fruitcake," Sandra Seals said. "It's not OK. He was a kind-hearted person. I feel like the VA does bear some responsibility because they were treating him for PTSD. But once they're done with you, they don't care."
No one ever called his mother, Sandra. She believes she could have talked him down.
Seals suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, back problems and ulcerative colitis, conditions worsened by stress. Sandra Seals said that the talk and group therapy provided by the government seemed inadequate to treat his PTSD.
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