Man killed in Salt Lake carjacking shootout was a veteran suffering from PTSD, wife says

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Bodycam video shows a deadly shootout with Salt Lake City police after a carjacking and two-mile chase.

“He had such a big personality," she said."If he's in the room, you can't miss him like. He loves making people laugh.”On his last tour, he was evacuated out of Afghanistan with a traumatic brain injury and PTSD. He was medically retired in 2017 and was living in Inkom, Idaho, coming down regularly to the VA in Salt Lake City for treatment.

Tesha was in Salt Lake City on that night Matthew carjacked a vehicle and led police officers on a nearly two-mile chase, ending in the shootout that killed him. “This incident is so far out of character for my husband," she said."I know without a shadow of a doubt that he had a PTSD moment, a trigger or something. And the reality that he was seeing was very different from what was actually happening.”

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