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In reply to the discussion: Killer's family tried to intervene before rampage [View all]passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Most of the therapy he was getting was more like hired life coaches who took him out to public places to teach him how to act around people and learn how to talk to girls. The psychiatrist he saw prescribed medication he refused to take and then he wouldn't go back to that psychiatrist. Any time he didn't get his way, or felt slighted in some way, he had a history of tantrums and crying jags even into his 20's.
When his parents were worried enough about his strange videos to call in a real therapist and have it reported to police, that should have been handled in a more thorough manner. When the cops were sent to interview him, they should also have searched his home for signs of trouble (like weapons, or a diary or manifest). Instead they talked to him outside his apartment and "took his word for it" that it was all just a misunderstanding. Sociopaths and other mentally ill people can be very smart and charming.
I'm sorry, but the way they handled this was not good enough. He should have been taken in for observation and his apartment should have been searched. If they'd found the guns and ammo, and his diary, I don't think this would have happened.
Just what the fuck do we have to do to get the right people involved to read the red flags and take them seriously?