Not always, but often enough to make it clear that it’s a cruddy old world out there. His family was trying to get him out of the situation, police and social services involved, but he simply refused to cooperate.
Yeah its hard to do with an adult.
I know of two other local cases over the last couple of years where brutal murders had been committed by people who were mentally ill but couldn’t be helped. In the more recent case a 19 year old kid had murdered his mother just a few days after they had been to court trying to get him involuntarily hospitalized.