Stephen Paddock, the gunman who opened fire on a crowd at a country music concert on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday, was prescribed an anti-anxiety drug in June, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
The paper, citing records from the Nevada Prescription Monitoring Program, reported Tuesday that Paddock was prescribed 50, 10-milligram diazepam tablets by a physician on June 21. The brand name of the drug is Valium. The report said the drug could trigger aggressive behavior.
Authorities investigating the mass killing may look to a “psychological autopsy” to try to uncover what led Paddock to open fire into a crowd at a country music concert.
Jim Clemente, a retired FBI profiler, said in an interview that if Paddock's suicide did not destroy his brain, experts could find some kind of neurological disorder or malformation.
“The genetics load the gun, personality and psychology aim it, and experiences pull the trigger, typically,” Clemente said. He pointed out that Paddock’s father — a bank robber — was diagnosed a psychopath.
Clemente speculated that there was “some sort of major trigger in his life — a great loss, a breakup, or maybe he just found out he has a terminal disease.”
New York forensic psychiatrist James Knoll in 2008 described a ”psychological autopsy” as a procedure that originated in 1958 that “involves a thorough and systematic retrospective analysis of the decedent’s life, with a particular focus on suicide risk factors, motives, and intentions.”
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4 comments:
Las Vegas gunman reportedly was prescribed anti-anxiety medication in June, along with 100 million other Americans.
I’ve taken it everyday for about 14 years and guess what? I’m not a psycho crazed gunman.
Just an excuse to induce pity for this a$$hole and regulate another part of our lives.
So far the bump stock and anti-anxiety medication are to blame. What’s next?
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
I’ve taken it everyday for about 14 years and guess what? I’m not a psycho crazed gunman.
Just an excuse to induce pity for this a$$hole and regulate another part of our lives.
So far the bump stock and anti-anxiety medication are to blame. What’s next?
October 6, 2017 at 11:41 AM
The mystery man "other shooter". The conspiracy of the media and the police covering it all up. But have no fear, all the hearing experts, the ones counting the shots on the videos, the ones counting a strobe light flashes in a 4th story window (that wasn't broken), preliminary scanner traffic before facts were known, cab drivers, etc., all these and more will crack the case.
What the heck do we even need police or investigators for nowadays? Just show some combat vet or rifle range shooter a video, contorted or not, even throw in some echoes and sounds bouncing off buildings, differing sounds from people running away, further or closer to a microphone, all that stuff it doesn't matter.
They will have it solved in no time.
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