I hadn’t heard that the knife had been closed and placed on a table. An additional indication of a gesture gone bad.
And the most important indication of a gesture gone bad....alcohol. I’d forgotten that Williams’ drug of choice had switched to alcohol. We had more alcohol connected gestures and suicides in the Army than any other indicator. Why the connection with alcohol? Because it dulls their reaction mentally and physically. If we get an autopsy report indication alcohol, then put another mark in the column headed ‘possible gesture’.
I counseled this for years, taught it from installation to installation, was responsible for the counseling in most of north central Germany for the US Army, and visited in hospitals and homes with those who’d been involved in ideation, gesture, and attempts.
The line between a gesture and an attempt can be pretty thin.
Well he wasn’t drinking anymore and his planning to enter rehab was so he wouldn’t go back, now that’s not saying he wasn’t drinking....we will have to wait for the toxicology report to find out. So we shall see as you said....if he wasn’t then I think there was something else going on the night before when his wife last saw him at 10 pm.
That could have caused a reaction on his part. Maybe there will be something new soon. A lot of people missed the ‘ closed blade’ pocket knife on a table near Williams comment from Officer Boyd at the Conference but I didn’t, then he said they found dried blood on it and are waiting to see if it is Williams....