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MILWAUKEE — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson says he wants answers from Veterans Affairs after a Wisconsin veteran killed himself after he was reportedly turned away from the troubled VA facility in Tomah this summer.

Johnson on Friday sent a letter to Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald, asking for all documents about 29-year-old Brian Rossell of Wausau, whose body was found Thursday in Lake Wausau after he went missing earlier in the week. Rossell’s mother says her son, a U.S. Army veteran, had sought help from the Tomah VA during the summer and was turned away.

Police said Rossell suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, paranoia and schizoaffective disorder, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

In his letter to McDonald, Johnson asked for the agency to “produce all documents and communications referring or relating to Mr. Rossell. In addition, I request that VA employees provide a staff-level briefing about the circumstances leading up to this tragedy.”

Johnson chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. In his letter, the Oshkosh Republican said Rossell’s apparent suicide “underscores concerns that the VA has yet to take full ownership of the systemic failures of the Tomah” facility.