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08/27/2018 / By JD Heyes

Jacksonville Madden NFL game tournament shooter was twice treated for mental illness with psych drugs

The Madden NFL gamer who shot and killed three people in Jacksonville, Fla., on Sunday and wounded nearly a dozen others before turning his gun on himself was an “all-business” introvert who was twice treated for mental illness. The Associated Press reported that according to divorce filings involving the parents of David Katz, 24, of Baltimore, when […]

08/27/2018 / By Mike Adams

Game tournament mass shooter was prescribed anti-psychotic and antidepressant medications – update

David Katz, the mass shooter who reportedly opened fire on a group of gamers at a “Madden NFL 19” tournament in Florida — killing two fellow gamers, then himself — had been treated for mental illness and prescribed both antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs, according to multiple media reports. “[A]s a teenager he was hospitalized twice […]

10/11/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock kept a doctor “on retainer” to keep feeding him mind-altering psychotropic drugs

The man behind the recent Las Vegas massacre has something in common with the perpetrators of many other mass shootings in recent years: Psychiatric drug use. A court deposition in a civil lawsuit filed by Paddock over a slip-and-fall incident against the Cosmopolitan Hotel that was obtained by CNN provides insight into his state of […]

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