Yeah, I’m not so sure about that special residence thing. This is the only place I’ve heard that and I skimmed that long daily mail piece and I don’t think it said anything about that.
There was a picture of the building and it looked like an ordinary apartment building.
I’m not saying it’s not true, but as of now I have to class it as unverified.
I too wonder why the videos, etc. were not sufficient. I can understand why the cops would feel they had no grounds to arrest him, but it seems you might take it before a judge and try and get some order for confinement or something.
But, as we are saying, it really is almost impossible to get any legal or medical help for crazy people.
Remember Billie Boggs? She was a crazy, homeless woman living in NYC. I remember seeing her tearful sister and brother in law on TV lamenting that they were unable to get any help to help their sister. Why this actually became a news story I don’t remember. But it was pathetic. The woman’s sister was pretty much living like an animal, she wanted to help her, and society said: no, you can’t help her, she, you and we all must continue to suffer.
Why, because a person who is demonstrably insane thinks it’s OK? Who really are the crazy people in this?
It was a regular apartment. Agencies and private institutions rent apartments (I think they get special government perks) as residences for the “homeless,” the supposedly functionally mentally ill, etc. This may be under Section 8, or it may be a special state or local program.
In any case, there’s minimal supervision and the people either work outside or pay their rent from private funds, which is what I would assume he was doing.
I don’t know what program he was in or who got him this room in the apartment. He killed his roommates as well, in this case, three guys with similar problems whom he stabbed to death.
I read somewhere that he was diagnosed as autistic or Aspergers, but this is generally an upper middle class ailment so their advocacy groups have a powerful lobby that prevents people with these disorders from getting into the no-gun databases, which I assume is why the gun dealer sold him the guns. He wasn’t in the databases.
The killer had already done a “citizen’s arrest” on one of his roommates, claiming that the guy had stolen $22 worth of candles from him. I think the roommate had probably just found them and lit them. Strangely enough, the police actually arrested the roommate. The killer apparently was a regular 911 caller, very convincing because nutcases are convincing, and always complaining about neighbors, etc. He was what the cops and EMS call a frequent flier.
Is there no communication? Nobody noticed that he was nuts? The supposed “therapists” didn’t get involved at any point?
I want to know what the organization was, how they were supervising this guy, and what their standards were.