More crazy vet fear
TSO sends a link to the Orlando Sentinel with the story of yet another vet who has gone nuts because he has this PTSD thing;
A manhunt began late Monday for David Eugene Smith, who has a history of mental illness, is paranoid, delusional, armed and “exceptionally dangerous.”
Deputies found Danyala Smith, 31, Nioski Williams, 25, and Miranda Mims, 28, dead in a home on Old Highway 37, south of Lakeland, on Monday night.
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Smith, who refers to himself as “Prince David,” might have been in the military in the past and suffers from PTSD, Judd said.
Smith has been held under Florida’s Baker Act for mental-health evaluation.
In 2009, he was arrested by Lakeland police on charges of cocaine possession, marijuana possession and carrying a concealed weapon.
Court records show he was convicted of a misdemeanor marijuana charge and the state dropped the cocaine and firearms charge.
I’m sure that it would be a nightmare to get a FOIA on the guy, I count seven David Eugene Smiths in AKO. I saw where he had been in the 82d Airborne Division, none of those seven have that in their records. None of them are in Florida. So getting his records would be a crap shoot. But, I do know that experts on PTS tell me that folks who do suffer from PTS aren’t a danger to anyone except themselves. The guy has more issues than PTS, obviously.
The prosecutor dropped weapons charges and cocaine possession charges against him – it sounds more like law enforcement failed him. The PTS bullshit comes from his mother who is obviously trying to blame the military for abandoning him – but like I said, folks who have PTS don’t hurt other people. they have anger issues, but they’re more likely to hurt themselves than others.
But saying “military” and “PTSD” makes it all so easy to understand for the low information public and the media.
I saw another article somewhere which reported that he was going to pay back his cheating wife – but he doesn’t have a wife according to his mother, so there’s more at work here than his military service.
Category: Crime
“They say he is a former soldier.” They? Well, they also say that he is gay, was mistaken for an ice rink by some hockey players, and was promoted by his teachers despite being a moron. Yep, that’s what THEY say.
2/17 Air Cav…So are you saying this genius was “socially promoted” through school? They do that now instead of flunking a kid and making him repeat the fifth grade? Oh, wait, yes they do. Nobody’s been “flunked” in decades. It could cause…here it comes…PTS later in life. I could be wrong but I say someone put 2 and 2 together and came up with 3 on this clown when it comes to “the military and PTS”. Until I see proof otherwise I won’t believe he was a vet. Until then we’ll have to rely in what THEY say.
Sparks: I’m thinking he may have joined up, but got an ELS or admin separation due to misconduct. I very easily could be wrong, though.
So if he was an ELS throwaway, wanna bet they’ll try to say his Drill Sergeants gave him the nasty ‘ol PTSD by hurting his feewings? I’m pretty sure the snooze media will be hush-hush about it if he turns out to be a poser!
Proud…it makes me remember “Full Metal Jacket” when Senior DI, Sgt Hartman went through the barracks giving everybody a derogatory name. First day, some DI, DS or TI (sorry, not sure what they’re called in the Navy) said, “Hey you, David Eugene Smith! I don’t like the name Eugene! From now on your name is Pizza Face! Got that numbnuts! Now drop and gimme 20!”
I can’t say empathy or sympathy so I will say my only identification with this guy is that, my mother, Bless Her Heart and God Rest Her Soul, chose to hang the same middle name on me. Was it the name of a great grandfather from the Civil War? Was it the name of an uncle or cousin war hero? Was it even a famous movie actor, singer or old, cherished family name? NO!!! To all of the above. It was a character she saw in a “romance novel” she was reading when she went into labor with me! Can you tell I hate the name? Thanks momma, I love you still though. (Pregnant women with raging hormones reading romance novels. Who’d a figured it would’ve happened to me?)
Looks like a lot of hearsay. Look at that pretty mug though.
Am I the only one who seems to hear a few bars of “Dueling Banjos” when I look at a photo of this guy?
Definitely not the only one. This guy looks like a fucking mess though. Got that bowl haircut going on too.
Do you remember the “Roman Brio” commercial?
haha 70s commercial? Like their fancy little bottles.
Update, he is in custody.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-lakeland-three-dead-20140527,0,601336.story
He went from vet to “Might have been in the military.
Smith, who refers to himself as “Prince David,” might have been in the military in the past and suffers from PTSD, Judd said.
Yeah looks like the “authorities” are getting a bit scared about fretting over possible veteran with possibly PTS.
What fucking idiots.
He is crazy. Measure the pupil to pupil distance.
CRAZY as CRAZY is!
I don’t care if he was a Vet, based on reporting … I am not believing it!
He is a MURDER now.
Next.
So they arrest this guy with some pot, some coke, and a pistol. They convict him of the pot possession but drop the two charges that could have locked him up for more than 90 days. Now. I ask you. who is the crazy one? They basically let him go to murder three people. I smell a lawsuit coming.
It had to be ptsd. The cocaine and pot and whatever else could not have contributed to this crime spree.
Dude is 27, with at least one arrest for cocaine, pot and weapons in 2009 and a history of mental illness, He is about the right age to have served, but if someone is that jacked up at 22 chances are he wasnt exactly right in the head at 18 either and could never gotten in or through boot camp.
There was a time back in the early-ish 90’s that I had real hope that we could finally get beyond all this scary vet nonsense. Doesn’t seem to have happened. Sad.
Meanwhile, this boy just ain’t right. (That will also probably turn out to be a racist statement, of course. Or maybe not.)
I have no idea whether he was in the military, but that dude definitely fell out of the ugly tree and hit every single branch. Jesus.
As my grandfather said regarding ugly, “He could draw a blister in the bottom of a galvanized shit pot.”
Ugly? Well I am seeing a rather gaunt face with lots of pitting. He is a bit past that awkward Teen acne stage and has a history of drugs,,,,Meth anyone?
I am having a tough time coming to TAH main page because of this guys face.
Please start posting as many news items as possible so I can enjoy TAH again without seeing this guys mug.
LOL Thanks guys! Hopefully that face will not haunt us in our dreams.
His BD is July 7, 1986(?) and probably was born in FL.
Diamond Mims
July 7, 2011
Happi.e. Born Day Bruh! Love u! Ur half way 2 fifty lol! Love u!
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His father graduated from Kathleen Senior High School
Class of 1978 · Lakeland, Florida
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002015197742&sk=about
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David Smith wrote on his Timeline.
July 7, 2011 at 1:18am
Happy b-day son much love DAD
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He got out of the army 2011 from NC and took a bus home to FL.
David Smith
August 13, 2011
Ready to get out the army already 5 years of my life.Im in the 82nd in even we got soft ready to come home in record.
David Smith
August 29, 2011
I’m finally out the army Wednesday back to the studio.
I have so much to rap about.
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Diamond Mims aka Danyala Smith was his sister. She was married and had three children. She divorced the man in 2010 and married Miranda Mims.This was a screwed up family. IMHO.
His lunatic rants went on and on. IMO, he was one bat-shit crazy person and the excessive alcohol and drugs didn’t help.
https://www.facebook.com/DuhTL?fref=ts
All this has to be true because it was on the internet.
Orlando Sentinel update as of 10:10 PM EDT, reports him as dead at the Medical Center of Tennessee earlier today.
Correction, University of Tennessee Medical Center.
I just checked out his facebook. This mother fucker WAS Bat-shit, no holds barred weapons grade cray-cray.
I mean I cannot even try to explain all the wacked out shit he posted.
As far as Service he claimed on facebook:
David Smith
April 27, 2011
chillin at fort bragg again feet hurt but o well back as a soldier
David Smith
May 8, 2011
82nd airborne again
His Dad posted on his wall:
David Smith posted to David Smith
May 19, 2011
Hey man just up can’t sleep thinking about how your doing.Hope your ok but im sure you are.Have they got you good boots yet?Have you heard anything about your pay?
Well call when you get a chance luv dad
Then
David Smith
May 29, 2011
On my way to charlotte will be on tv @ 6 pm marching go army
David Smith
August 13, 2011
Ready to get out the army already 5 years of my life.Im in the 82nd in even we got soft ready to come home in record.
So it looks like he is claiming 4 months as a retread. No reason given for discharge.
then this gem:
David Smith
April 9
Whats been going on with me. I got out of the Army in Sep 2011 and have been Diagnosed with ptsd so I just dropped my pension .I know you know pants what we suppose to do and for that reason! I dropped our App Yo ukno wthe day you got hired. #Lay off the disappointment because Proverbs in the bible says A i should’nt love you but i do and b it says a noble wife brings home the Money.
He was nutter that should have been in an asulum long ago.
I had a few minutes so I looked thru his page too. For the first couple years it seems like a page for a wanna be rapper, then all of a sudden turns into a page for someone who’s into conspiracy theories, illuminati, secret weather machine, etc.
I didn’t see anything on his page to indicate he was even in the state of NC, let alone in the Army. Plus, some of those comments about him being in the Army look like repeats from previous years.
I recognize the Secrets emblem from Ft Bragg since I was there a few years myself, but that could’ve been gotten anywhere on the internet. There aren’t even any pics of this guy’s face on his web page.
Regardless, he’s a wackaloon. Even from what I see I don’t figure him making it thru anything in the Army. He might have been in the Army at some point, but I don’t see anything to that effect in this profile.
The kicker is that he claims to have been in in 2011, 2 years after his drug bust.
Say a picture of him with his mom and Dad probably 2years old. He had longer hair and a clear complexion. That Pizza face he had had to be from meth.
3 articles in the last week here have happened almost in my backyard. Glad I’m moving out of Tampa next week.
Wink wink nudge nudge.
Hey Theresa how’s North South Dakota this time of year? Or are you in Italy now?
I’m camped out for summer up here in North Dakota.
Tornado missed me by a wide margin, went tearing through the oil crew camps and did a lot of damage. Made a mess.
You or the tornado tore through the oil crew camps?
Bazinga!!
Dude is dead. He shot himself in the chest during a shoot out with cops and died a few hours later.
“Due to his alleged military background, his paranoid and delusional state of mind, we are urging the public’s help in locating this suspect – as soon as possible.” That’s from the Polk Sheriff’s Office official news release on their website. Notice that the reasons given for locating the killer as soon as possible begin with his “alleged military background.” I suppose that were it not for that “alleged” background, the public’s help in locating this guy could have waited. Oh, and it was great police work that nabbed him. HE called the police and gave them his location. They arrived (I would have paid to see THAT deployment) and then killed himself, being sure not to mar his good looks in doing so.