Sadly, the “cure” is often worse than the disease in schizophrenia. The side effects of most anti-psychotics are pretty rough.
In my area it is pretty easy to get a court order to force a mentally ill adult child to get help if they are a danger to themselves or others. Unfortunately the quality of help available for mental patients is generally pretty poor from what I have seen.
I pray for the victims, the young man who killed them, and his parents. This is a tragedy for all involved.
The liberal elites and progressives have made it very hard to legally put people like this young man in mental institutions. It has been one of their ‘causes’ for decades to get these people out of institutions and is the main reason there are so many of them on the streets now. If you are successful in getting a court order for treatment for someone, it usually last only 30 days...hardly enough time to treat these people with any success.
This is the angle of this story that needs more exposure. My guess is that it will be ignored by the media altogether.