DETROIT (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is being blamed for the suicide of a 24-year-old Michigan man who served with the Marines in Iraq. A lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses government doctors of failing to keep Randen Harvey in a hospital or commit him to a mental-health facility in 2006. Harvey died of a drug overdose at his father's home in Farmington Hills in June 2006. The lawsuit says he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after two tours in Iraq. The lawsuit says Harvey was found on the roof of the Dingell VA Medical Center in Detroit, three days before his death. He was discharged and told to wait for substance-abuse treatment. The lawsuit seeks cash. A message seeking comment was left with the VA.
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