Meds made him feel like a Pubbie and couldn't take it any longer.
Posted on 06/11/2014 5:24:32 AM PDT by rellimpank
SEATTLE — The man charged with killing one student and wounding two others at a small Seattle college last week had stopped taking his medications because he "wanted to feel the hate," and he detailed his plans in a handwritten journal for two weeks before the attack, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
"I just want people to die, and I'm gonna die with them!" Aaron Ybarra wrote the day of the shooting, King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said.
Satterberg released new details of the allegations as he filed charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder and assault against Ybarra, 26. Satterberg is seeking a sentence of life in prison.
Authorities say Ybarra has been held without bail and is on suicide watch at the county jail since a student pepper-sprayed him and ended the rampage Thursday at Seattle Pacific University.
Ybarra's lawyer, Ramona Brandes, has said her client has a long history of mental issues but is aware of the trauma caused by the shooting and is sorry. She said Tuesday that no decision has been made yet on whether he will seek a mental-illness defense.
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that’s what these nutcases always do, they feel numb on meds so they go off them
Ybarra; citizenship?????
100 bucks says the guy voted for Obama and is a stalwart Dem.
Funny, back in the days BEFORE all these meds were invented, there weren't nearly as many killing sprees. I guess the libs will now be pushing for "meds" to be added to the water supply.
Too bad there are no laws against people with “a long history of mental issues” getting their hands on firearms.
Add him to the list of mass killers who were on anti-depressants/psychotics.
He was dx’d with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? What med’s was he on? I haven’t seen the actual name, just “medications” on different stories.
Actually enforcing the laws we now might cause hurty feelers for some precious little snowflakes. Easier for politicians to pass even more ineffective laws, to give the appearance of "doing something".
Found it. Ybarra said he was prescribed Risperdal and Prozac for Psychosis/Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Treats schizophrenia and certain problems caused by bipolar disorder
Risperdal is heavy. It's prescribed when people are hearing voices, experiencing hallucinations and disorganized thinking. Withdrawal from Risperdal must be done very carefully.
Prozac is - of course - no walk in the park either.
Have you seen these sites?
http://www.antidepressantsfacts.com/casualties.htm
http://www.antidepressantsfacts.com/introduction.htm
Also the cop killers in Vegas were on meth.
Wake yup America.
Define "long history." I went to a therapist for over a year when I was a pre-teen after my parents divorced. I learned a lot of good anger management and coping skills from those sessions. Should that bar me from owning a gun?
He had a long history of disturbed and violent behavior and had been institutionalized twice before.
Why wasn’t he permanently or at least long-term institutionalized?
People who have bipolar disorder are notorious for ceasing their medications because they actually like the way it feels when they are on a run, so to speak. It frequently ends with suicide, btw.
At odds here, I believe, are two very large, DC-embedded PACs: big Guns (AKA: the NRA) and big Pharma. The NRA and other organizations like it have the defense of our founding principals in mind. We’re trying to turn back a century of legal garbage that’s made gun ownership burdensome.
Meanwhile, big Pharma is pumping the citizenry full of drugs that were oftentimes rubber-stamped by the FDA for approved use.
We have myriad examples of people “going nuts” due to pharmaceutical abuse and/or withdrawal, yet one would be incredibly hard-pressed to find a case where a lawful, stable gun owner “went nuts.” Seems the focus should be shifted, but we all know that’s not going to happen.
Aaron Ybarra
Maybe they need to update the warning labels on those psychotropic drugs.
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