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Authorities: Fatigues-clad vet kills self in Ohio

DAYTON, Ohio — An Army veteran wearing military fatigues shot and killed himself Friday with an assault rifle on the steps of a Veterans Administration medical center in Ohio where he had been a patient, authorities said.

Police found a rifle and a satchel near the body, which was on the steps of the Dayton VA center’s main entrance Friday morning. Bomb squad members detonated the satchel, but there was no immediate information on what was in the bag.

The Montgomery County coroner identified the man as 27-year-old Jesse Huff. He was an Army veteran who had been a patient at the center and was seen in the center’s emergency room around 1 a.m. Friday, said VA center spokeswoman Donna Simmons.

Simmons said she could not share any of Huff’s medical information or say how long he had been a patient at the center. Simmons said no military information about Huff could be released other than the branch in which he served, and she also would not release his hometown.

No one else was injured in the shooting, Simmons said.