Another Mental Health Killing Spree…How Long Will Shooter’s Mental Health History be Hidden?
Republished with permission from AbleChild.
Last Monday the nation had to endure the horror and tragedy of another mass shooting carried out by another “mentally ill” gunman. The questions that come from this shooting incident should begin with how tough can it be for those in power to finally accept that there’s a problem with the behavioral health model that seriously has been broken for decades?
Nevada resident Shane Tamura drove cross country in record time reportedly hell-bent on shooting up the headquarters of the National Football League (NFL). Unfortunately, the mentally ill Tamura didn’t wait to start shooting at the apparent NFL target but, rather, began shooting in the lobby of the mid-town office building, taking out innocent lives for no apparent reason. A shocking unnecessary tragedy and the powers that be, once again, fail to address the elephant in the room…Tamura was being “treated” for mental illness(es) with serious psychiatric mind-altering drugs.
In a three-page hand-written note found on his lifeless body Tamura whined about Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease associated with head trauma. Yes, Tamura played High School football but never played for any college or for the NFL, his apparent target. And according to one of his former high school coaches Tamura did not sustain any head injuries.
However, Tamura had regularly seen a neurologist who yearly took MRI exams and provided various treatments, including Sumatriptan injections. There is no evidence to date that yearly MRIs revealed any CTE.
But what sport Tamura played in High School really isn’t relevant. What is relevant is that police knew immediately that Tamura had a history of mental illness. As usual, no specific details are ever provided about the alleged “mental illness.” Why? It is allegedly due to this mental illness that innocent lives were taken. Shouldn’t the public have a right to know what specific mental illness Tamura suffered from, what his doctors were providing as “treatment” and how long had Tamura been a mental health patient?
Unfortunately, the public might never get the complete details of the gunman’s mental health issues and drug “treatment,” but it has been revealed through media sources that, despite Tamura’s mental health issues, the gunman was working in security/surveillance at the Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas.
Because Tamura had been taken in on two Mental Health Crisis holds in Nevada, first in 2022 and then again in 2024, investigators may want to look into how Tamura was able to obtain a conceal carry permit in Nevada and, more importantly, work in security at a Las Vegas casino? Further, Tamura had been arrested in 2022 at a Las Vegas casino for trespassing after reportedly “grabbing a security guard and refusing to leave.” Those charges were suspiciously dropped, but one has to wonder how this incident slipped through the Horseshoe Casino’s background check?
But even these incidents don’t provide the data that is necessary to understand the obvious decent into mental illness that the gunman was experiencing. If investigators want to know why this senseless shooting occurred, the first action would have been to subpoena Tamura’s mental health records.
It was early on reported that a “medication” was found in Tamura’s abandoned automobile in Manhattan, and it later was revealed that an antipsychotic was found in his room where he lived in Las Vegas.
It was only after police reported what was found in his apartment that one can easily surmise that Tamura’s problems weren’t with the NFL but, rather, with the mental health industry. According to news reports police removed from Tamura’s apartment “multiple prescription bottles along with paperwork, other prescription bottles with pills…”
So, again, how many prescription psychiatric drugs Tamura had been prescribed is anyone’s guess. How long Tamura had been “treated” with psychiatric drugs is absolutely necessary to understand how the “treatment” had changed Tamura over the years.
Let’s just consider the possible adverse events associated with the reported antipsychotic Tamura had been prescribed. First, let’s understand that antipsychotics usually are prescribed to manage psychosis, a mental state characterized by loss of contact with reality, often involving hallucinations and delusions.
The following are possible adverse effects associates with antipsychotics – insomnia, anxiety, agitation, confusion, and delirium. Now imagine that Tamura had been on a cocktail of psychiatric drugs which each class of drug carries its own list of serious adverse effects. Finally, one must consider whether Tamura suffered from Tardive Dyskinesia (TD), a movement disorder characterized by involuntary, repetitive muscle movements, affecting the face, neck, arms and legs and caused by taking antidepressants.
Is it possible that Tamura was suffering from drug induced TD and his delusions fixated on the NFL’s CTE history? Ironically, Tamura’s brain will be examined as part of his autopsy and a neuropathology expert is reportedly already in the process of carrying out “additional testing” to determine if Tamura suffered from CTE. But conducting the CTE examination will only be relevant if the expert also considers the years of psychiatric drug use by the shooter.
The bottom line to the case is all about Tamura’s mental health history and the drugs prescribed as “treatment.” Isn’t it odd that the public knows the minute details of the weapon used in the murderous attack, yet is never provided the name of shooter’s prescribing physicians and the drugs prescribed?
It’s the same cover up with every mass shooting. Remember Nashville shooter Audrey Hale? Hale killed six people at her former school in 2023 and to date, the public still has not been provided her complete mental health history and drug “treatments.” Hale had twenty years of psychiatric “treatment” prior to carrying out the murders but the details of Hale’s “treatment” have yet to be released.
In fact, more often than not, these mass shooters have long psychiatric “treatment” histories. Tamura appears to be the latest beneficiary of failed psychiatric “treatment.” The public knows what Tamura did and how Tamura did it but haven’t been given the reasons behind the deadly attack. Note to law enforcement – no need to look any further than Tamura’s medicine cabinet.
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