I watched his attorney present his medical issues but dementia or anything to do with psychological problems was not one of them.
If he had Alzheimers then he would have forgotten where his gun was and what he went to the lobby for and all would have been well.
It's more like manic depression or bipolar -- and a psych workup should be in his future shortly after Feb 5th -- unless they find that UFO.
Inappropriate anger and aggression is a dementia symptom. It’s possible that he is as yet undiagnosed. His family may have been ignoring symptoms because they weren’t extreme enough yet. This event most certainly is going to trigger a new medical evaluation.
And the lawyer could hardly introduce an undiagnosed medical condition. Legal strategies can change with new information and evidence.
As for the UFO, Oulsen and his popcorn were backlit by the screen in a darkened theater so they would have appeared dark. Once the houselights go down, it’s quite difficult to see anything but the screen when you are facing it, but if you have your back to it, the screen light things up quite a bit. It won’t be long before the defense figures this explanation out.
I would say that it was blind rage because the victim did not bow, scrape, and not acknowledge his authority, or specifically, his perceived authority.
Not if he were in the early stages which is when irrational anger manifests. My mother is in the later stages now and she can still remember a lot of things. In fact she remembers most things of the nature of where her belongings are with occasional slips.