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.
“I want to know what the organization was, how they were supervising this guy, and what their standards were.”
Me too.
And I’m not sure I think housing 2 or 3 or 4 mentally ill young men together is such a great idea.
Of course, there’s a little speculation there, but if the situation is how I surmise it, well, I’m sorry but that seems kind of dumb.
As it certainly proved in this case as those 3 fellows are murdered by their roommate.