“We knew that sooner or later he was going to do something of this nature,”
There in lies the problem. This person was most likely deemed by some psychiatrist not to be a danger to himself or others, so there are no grounds to place into the state’s custody.
I bet even the parents were begging these professionals that their son needed to be committed but because there was no history of violence this crazy dude was allowed to roam free while not taking any of his prescribed meds...
How can I be so sure? I raised to socio/psychopaths that my wife adopted out of foster care and we heard those same things for years.
“I bet even the parents were begging these professionals that their son needed to be committed...”
The mother of that guy who attacked those people in Monsey NY had begged a court to lock him up, no dice.