‘Who else can we save?’ | Family remembers loved one while helping others struggling with PTSD [Video]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A Knoxville family is taking a tragedy that happened to them in 2017 and turning it into a story of hope for others. They created an organization that helps military veterans, like their father, who struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder.

On a spring day in 2017, 74-year-old Albert Gagnier was struggling. 

“The man that was in the house with me was really not my husband,” Gabriela Gagnier said. “He had gone through some very tragic incidents, he hadn’t slept for five days during the week.” 

His family didn’t know he was struggling with PTSD until it was too late. Albert Gagnier walked out of his house with a gun and fired it into the air and down the street. Neighbors …