Greedy idiot RW billionaires, your brainwashing masters, refuse to be taxed their fair share or invest in mental health. DUH. Like infrastructure and education and training and JOBS.
Not excuses, intelligent observation, hater dupes.
Before slaying NYPD officers gunman shot ex-girlfriend - CNN.com
Lengthy criminal history
Long before Saturday's shootings, Brinsley was no stranger to police.
He had an extensive criminal record, including at least 19 arrests, a 2-year prison term and several stints in Georgia jails, Boyce said.
Brinsley's mother told detectives she hadn't seen her son in a month. He "had a very troubled childhood," "was often violent" and had tried to commit suicide, she told them, according to Boyce.
It wasn't immediately clear, Boyce said, how Brinsley got the gun he used to shoot his ex-girlfriend and two police officers before turning the weapon on himself.
A man bought the handgun at a Georgia pawn shop in 1996, when Brinsley was just 9.
Detectives are working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Boyce said, "to find out where (the gun) could have fallen into his hands."
In a 2011 hearing in Cobb County, Georgia, Brinsley pleaded guilty to theft, property damage, possession of a firearm by a felon and discharging a gun near a public street after he used a stolen .25 caliber semiautomatic handgun to fire into a gold Chevy Malibu.
When asked by a judge at the hearing whether he'd ever been a patient in a mental institution or under the care of a psychologist or psychiatrist, he answered yes, according to court documents.