Can a brain tumor cause someone to depart from an otherwise normal life and go on such a horrific killing spree with no outward warning signs?
I believe it is possible.
Isn’t that what happened with the guy in the bell tower down in Texas some years ago?
Maybe. Charles Whitman had a brain tumor, but they don’t know if that caused him to climb the UT Austin clock tower an start shooting people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman
possible... per my neurosurgeon bud
It was determined that POS Charles Whitman had a tumor.
We had a local incident where a nice young man working at an MRI imaging office started acting erratically, so police were called. The man was able to somehow get a gun away from one of the cops & killed him.
It was inexplicable until the autopsy & they found the brain tumor.
Charles Whitman (the University of Texas shooter) had a brain tumor and in his suicide/goodbye note asked that his brain be studied as he could sense something was wrong with him.
“Can a brain tumor cause someone to depart from an otherwise normal life and go on such a horrific killing spree with no outward warning signs?”
We don’t know that there were no warning signs. Aggressive. brain tumors can develop rapidly. Someone acquainted with him might have noticed changes in behavior and affect if a neurological condition was developing.
It can certainly cause someone to renege on his promise to repeal Obamacare
A brain tumor, nestled between his thalamus, hypothalamus and amygdala, developed quietly to the size of a pecan.
During his 25th year, Whitman began to complain of headaches, a severe, persistent pain that he later described as “tremendous.” He wrote increasingly troubled journal entries detailing his mental state: “Recently (I cannot recall when it started) I have been a victim of many unusual and irrational thoughts.” He paid a visit to the campus mental health center complaining of violent impulses.
Then, one sweltering August day in 1966, Whitman did something no one expected: He climbed to the top of the UT tower with a sawed-off shotgun, and began shooting. His 96-minute reign of terror killed 13 people on campus and injured over 30, and only ended when he was killed by Austin police.
Whitman’s suicide note requested an autopsy to examine his brain, because he was convinced it would show some “visible physical disorder.”
Yup
The guy in the Austin school tower had a brain tumor