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hack89

(39,171 posts)
Tue Sep 17, 2013, 03:21 PM Sep 2013

Wow - the Navy Yard shooter was in my area last month acting crazy

Aaron Alexis, the gunman who killed 12 people at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C, before being shot and killed, was in Newport and Middletown in August, according to sources close to the investigation. He reportedly had an interaction with the Newport Police Department at that time. Sources said when police responded, he was demonstrating paranoid thoughts, claimed he was being followed and thought he "had a chip in his head."


http://portsmouth.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/navy-yard-gunman-had-interactions-with-newport-police-last-month
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cthulu2016

(10,960 posts)
1. paranoid schizophrenia is a dreadful illness
Tue Sep 17, 2013, 03:24 PM
Sep 2013

The "chip in my head" thing is amazingly widespread, given its specificity.

The same illness would, before chips existed, have had a different culturally derived "best explanation" narrative, probably involving angels or demons.

 

VanillaRhapsody

(21,115 posts)
2. Could also be triggered from sleep deprivation due to anxiety....I hear he was PTSD
Tue Sep 17, 2013, 03:30 PM
Sep 2013

from being at Ground Zero on Sept 11.

DJ13

(23,671 posts)
4. Oh, you want to rent an AR-15?
Tue Sep 17, 2013, 03:32 PM
Sep 2013

Sure, no problem.

On thing though, is this for you or that chip in your head?

Not that it makes any difference......

DJ13

(23,671 posts)
7. No, he had rented one and returned it just before the shooting spree
Tue Sep 17, 2013, 05:56 PM
Sep 2013

He used a shotgun and two pistols as far as I've heard.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
11. The question is how mentally ill people are tagged as mentally ill
Wed Sep 18, 2013, 06:24 AM
Sep 2013

and what criteria is used to tag them.

This guy moved so much - it would take a national database to handle it.

 

Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)
13. The background check database is nationwide
Wed Sep 18, 2013, 06:31 AM
Sep 2013

But when nobody makes any effort to update it, despite any people having had contact and knowing, all the checks and services are useless.

I saw it over and over. Especially with parents. The know their child is severely disturbed, but refuse to ever seek real treatment or report them for crimes such as attacking then because they "don't want them in the system" or "don't want them labeled". So nobody outside few know they have these problems, until they snap so bad it has to be noticed.

Many police departments also would rather just send somebody down the road to be somebody else's problem instead of seeking a 72 hour mental health eval,where at least somebody might care enough to start paperwork on these guys.

 

philosslayer

(3,076 posts)
10. "Crazy"??
Tue Sep 17, 2013, 09:37 PM
Sep 2013

Really?? Is that you characterize the mentally ill? And is someone acting stupid being "retarded"?

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