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http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/12/22/3153777/fred-grimm-stroke-of-luck-prevented.html
A shooting horror was averted last Monday. Who knows? Maybe another massacre, given the volatile combination of a disturbed war veterans escalating mental crisis and the astounding firepower he had accumulated preparing for Armageddon.
He was an Iraq War veteran, 26, suffering from crippling effects of post-traumatic stress disorder. His relatives were convinced that with his ever-deepening delusions and with the frightful armory he kept in his West Miami-Dade home, the vet was on the verge of something terrible.
It was only luck, and a Google search, that led them to the right telephone number. They called the office of Judge Steve Leifman, architect of the countys mental health intervention project. Leifmans staffers, Cindy A. Schwartz and Habsi Kaba, took the information and dispatched a crisis intervention team to the house. Along with a SWAT team...............
Florida has been fighting it out with Texas for the distinction of the state that spends the least amount of money per capita on mental health. Leifman said weve finally sunk to dead last in mental health funding.
Its pathetic, he said.
Maybe, once hes stabilized, the vet will agree to hospitalization.
Or maybe hell be back, untreated, to his apocalyptic visions and a house full of assault weapons, living at confluence of two flawed and dangerous public policies.
A shooting horror was averted last Monday. Who knows? Maybe another massacre, given the volatile combination of a disturbed war veterans escalating mental crisis and the astounding firepower he had accumulated preparing for Armageddon.
He was an Iraq War veteran, 26, suffering from crippling effects of post-traumatic stress disorder. His relatives were convinced that with his ever-deepening delusions and with the frightful armory he kept in his West Miami-Dade home, the vet was on the verge of something terrible.
It was only luck, and a Google search, that led them to the right telephone number. They called the office of Judge Steve Leifman, architect of the countys mental health intervention project. Leifmans staffers, Cindy A. Schwartz and Habsi Kaba, took the information and dispatched a crisis intervention team to the house. Along with a SWAT team...............
Florida has been fighting it out with Texas for the distinction of the state that spends the least amount of money per capita on mental health. Leifman said weve finally sunk to dead last in mental health funding.
Its pathetic, he said.
Maybe, once hes stabilized, the vet will agree to hospitalization.
Or maybe hell be back, untreated, to his apocalyptic visions and a house full of assault weapons, living at confluence of two flawed and dangerous public policies.