No one ever said she was a schizophrenic person having a full blown psychotic episode....
“Officer Smith had responded to a similar call two days earlier, on May 26, when he learned Ms. Williams had been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic who had possibly stopped taking her prescribed medication, Mr. Jarbola said.”
Reading problems? When a paranoid schizophrenic stops taking their meds, starts harassing the neighbors, gets naked and starts shouting, screaming and eventually gets a knife........ it’s a fair bet they’re descending into a psychotic episode. That’s what happens when paranoid schizophrenics stop taking their anti-psychotic meds, they become psychotic again.