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The government was supposed to take care of mentally disabled Marine combat veteran Brian Callan. It didn't.

A A A Comments By Paul Rubin Thursday, Nov 21 2002

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Officer Geoff White notes that Callan had attached his military ID dog tags to one of the bootlaces he was wearing when he died. That has led police to conclude that the ex-Marine probably had gone to Bell Road Toyota primed for a violent clash.

But many of Callan's longtime friends say he always wore the dog tags with those boots.

courtesy of Jerri Glover

Brian Callan posed with his new Toyota Tacoma a few hours after he leased it from Bell Road Toyota last August 31.

Jackie Mercandetti

Jerri Glover visited her oldest child's grave in Cave Creek on November 10, the day before Veterans' Day.

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Sean Callan says he spoke a few days after the tragedy to Dr. Dennis Grant, Brian Callan's psychiatrist at the VA. He says Grant told him he was "shocked" by the suicide, and that Callan had been a topnotch soldier in whom he should have great pride.

Brian Callan was given a military funeral at the Cave Creek National Veterans Cemetery. The many medals and ribbons he'd earned as a United States Marine were buried with him.