What is the name of the family spokesMuslim?
Have any high school friends talked about the depressed high schooler? Any college friends? He texted a friend before he let his depression overtake his civility. How many of the mentally ill mass killers of recent times had friends?
Abdulazeez, who was shot and killed by police after a hail of gunfire, was first treated by a child psychiatrist for depression when he was 12 or 13 years old, said the family representative.
“He was medicated like many children are. Through high school and college he did a better job sometimes than others staying with it,” said the spokesman.
Several years ago, relatives tried to have Abdulazeez admitted to an in-patient program for drug and alcohol abuse but a health insurer refused to approve the expense, said the representative.
Recently, Abdulazeez had begun working the night shift at a manufacturing plant and was taking medication to help with problems sleeping in the daytime, the representative said, and he also had a prescription for muscle relaxants because of a back problem.
It’s unknown what substances were in the man’s system at the time of the slayings, but toxicology tests should provide an answer.
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