Tragedy

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3 Dead In Salt Lake Shootout

3 Die in Mormon Library Shooting By PAUL FOY  Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY (AP) _ A 71-year-old man calmly walked into the Mormon church's renowned genealogical library during an international convention on Thursday and methodically shot people with a small-caliber handgun.

A 15-year-old Scappoose boy dies while being restrained at a high desert wilderness school

ADAPT Sends Message to NGA - Or How Many Police Does It Take to Stop a Wheelchair User Who is Out of the Wheelchair?

American Psychiatric Association President Rodrigo Munoz, M.D. (no link) "Despite a decade of research, there is little valid evidence to prove a causal relationship between the use of anti-depressant medications and destructive behavior. On the other hand, there is ample evidence that undiagnosed and untreated mental illness exacts a heavy toll on those who suffer from these disorders, as well as those around them."

AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE DEATH OF MP Forty-one year old female patient dies at Western State Hospital after being found unresponsive in her bedroom on July 7, 1997. DRVD CASE# 97-0350 M
Department for Rights of Virginians with Disabilities Beth R. Chadwell, Disability Rights Advocate May 1999

ANOTHER CASUALTY AT A STATE BOOT CAMP

Attorneys for Swanzey murder suspect says police coerced her By DAMIEN CAVE for SentinelSource

Beaten Mass. Psychiatrist Dies

"Bomb Count Grows; Woman Linked to Guns in Attack April 28, 1999 By JODI WILGOREN LITTLETON, Colo. -- An 18-year-old woman who attended the senior prom with one of the killers at Columbine High School bought at least two of the firearms used in the attack

'Dad, you think I'm going to die?'  By MICHAEL HEMPHILL / THE ROANOKE TIMES| Monday, June 14, 1999 A time would come when the investigation into John McCloskey's injuries would consume his family's full attention. But not yet. At the moment, John was still with them, debilitated though he was.

Dead, but at whose hand?   By MICHAEL HEMPHILL THE ROANOKE TIMES Sunday, June 13, 1999  For more than a year, this was John McCloskey's life: a hospital bed, ceiling tiles, a television screen. A steady procession of hovering, masked bodies who tended the softball-sized hole in his stomach. Loneliness. Fear. And shame at being so exposed, so dependent at 18, then 19 years old.

Dying for real care at a 'mental ward' hotel

Eric Harris was under a doctor's care (CNN) April 29, 1999 Shooting suspect Eric Harris was rejected by Marine Corps recruiters just five days before the Columbine High School massacre because he had been prescribed an anti-depressant and was under a doctor's care.

Following is a draft summary of what happened to my son

 
Harris had prescription for anti-depressant CNN News: Among the leads for investigators is a medical condition cited by the Marines Corps when it rejected Harris as a recruit just five days before the attack.
 
Lack of Training Blamed in Slayings of Mentally Ill LAPD: Review of cases shows confrontational tactics contribute to toll. Chief Parks defends department's record

Mental hospital here offered no safety from rape By John Woestendiek INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

 
MENTAL ILLNESS CITED IN SHOOTING San Jose Mercury News - June 11, 1999 Ten years ago, Clarence Dorsey's medical insurance ran out on him. And on Tuesday evening, time ran out for the homeless schizophrenic
 
Misplaced Secrecy on Genes Washington Post Editorial Monday, November 8, 1999; Page A20

New Subway Pushing Incident in NYC Thursday, April 29, 1999 7:21 AM Another subway pushing tragedy heads the news

Police Say Man Tried to Kill Wife  Sep. 22, 1999, The Capital

Revelations about writers' deaths stun R-J newsroom Media Watch [LV City Life Magazine]

Signs of drug use found in death of newspaper columnist Police say two Las Vegas writers who died last week made routine trips to Mexico to buy prescription drugs. By Glenn Puit Review-Journal

Slaying Blamed on Drug Reaction By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press Writer
 
Sponsors Want to Keep Gene Test Deaths Secret Requests Spur Debate About Openness

State sued over death of patient at Larned State Hospital By DAVID MILES,The Associated Press

Subway Rider in Midtown Is Pushed in Front of Train April 29, 1999 By ANDREW JACOBS

Tragedy and Senselessness By BEVERLY MCPHAIL Two words have consistently been used to describe the school shooting in Littleton, Colo. : tragic and senseless.

Wrong way to rebuild the East

 

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