Archive for North Carolina (NC) – Page 2

Final Duke Rape Report Issued — (The Smoking Gun)
SSRI Ed note: Woman on Methadone, Paxil and Ambien invents the story that she was raped by 3 members of Duke lacrosse team. Her credibility is destroyed in report.
Parker guilty on all counts — (The Cherokee Sentinel)
SSRI Ed note: Man, never had any trouble with the law, robs bank on impulse, goes gambling with ex, is caught because he did nothing to hide it. Blames Paxil, convicted.
Shot struck deputy like a ‘bad bee sting’ — (Greensboro News & Record)
SSRI Ed note: Woman on medication for anxiety and depression "snaps" fires 25 rounds into 4 houses, hits a Deputy in the leg.
Forum to ponder school gun incidents — (News and observer)
SSRI Ed note: Teen, 17, stops taking antidepressant and neuroleptic meds, takes shotgun to school and holds a teacher and a student hostage.
Before & After: One accident changes many lives — (The Fayetteville Observer)
SSRI Ed note: Woman on prescription antidepressants is impaired while driving, hits star student causing serious injury. She is charged.
Family talks about prescription trials — (News 14 Carolina)
SSRI Ed note: Well-adjusted teen, 16, breaks up with girlfriend, GP prescribes Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Paxil, becomes a "monster", "violent", gets off meds, is OK again.
Agent says VA suspect bipolar — (Fayetteville Observer)
SSRI Ed note: Man on Effexor murders his lover of 11 years when she wants to end their relationship.
Son, depressed, kills mother, self — (Robesonian)
SSRI Ed note: Man, 53, takes antidepressants and shoots ans kills his 70-yr-old mother, and himself. Everyone is shocked, this was totally out of character.
Mother on trial for murdering son — (WCNC)
SSRI Ed note: Mom on Zoloft murders son, attempts to murder daughter. At trial, 2 psychiatrists agree Zoloft could have caused. Jury finds guilty of 1st degree murder.
Driver allegedly waves gun, leads citizens on three-county chase — (WCNC.com)
SSRI Ed note: Driver on a "cocktail of pain meds and antidepressants" drives recklessly, waves a gun, crashes into a parked car at 60 - 70 mph, wife badly injured.
Families remember lost loved ones — (News 14 Charlotte)
SSRI Ed note: Man on antidepressants, "not the kind of person who would hurt anybody" rapes and beats wife, shoots and kills 3 family members.
Mother who killed children, self, being treated for depression — (The Wilmington Star)
SSRI Ed note: Loving, involved mother, separated from husband, takes antidepressants, murders her two teenage children and kills herself.
3 family killings share pattern — (The Herald-Sun)
SSRI Ed note: Even when a real pattern of family violence is noted (threats of suicide, subsequent violence) the key ingredent is missed: "treatment" for "mental illness".
Trial begins for man charged in death of estranged wife — (WWAYTV3)
SSRI Ed note: Man separated from wife takes Paxil, goes to her home and kills her by shooting through the windows.
Study supports pairing Prozac, therapy – Duke research focuses on kids — (The News and Observer)
SSRI Ed note: Prozac, approved for kids because of research fraud [not in article], is found in 2004 research to be associated with kids harming themselves and others.
Berry’s mother offers testimony: Recalls son as teen troubled by various mental problems — (StarNewsOnline.com)
SSRI Ed note: Man on "powerful drugs including lithium, Paxil and Dexedrine" stabs 16-yr-old girl to death, mental illness & retardation blamed. Gets death sentence.
Director of Non-Profit Agency Commits Suicide
Noah Wright Smith — (2006 FDA Hearings)
SSRI Ed note: Boy, 15, testifies at FDA hearings that all the drugs he was forced to take made him feel suicidal and violent.
Pa. man leaps to his death off Hatteras lighthouse — (The Virginian-Pilot)
SSRI Ed note: Newlywed man, 26, on antidepressant jumps to his death from lighthouse.
Man lost permit, but kept guns — (The News & Observer)
SSRI Ed note: Man worried about deteriorating marriage given Celexa. He then kills his family and himself.
Killer gets 3 life sentences: Alan Douglas Gates pleads guilty to murder in the July slayings of his daughter, her friend and the friend’s son — (The News & Observer)
SSRI Ed note: Man plans rape of estranged wife, ends up murdering her.
Former Toledo minister linked to wife’s murder — (The Toledo Blade)
SSRI Ed note: Minister on Paxil loses posts, has affair, marriage troubles, murders wife.
Police treating four fatalities as murder-suicide — (The Charlotte Observer)
SSRI Ed note: Man gets treatment for "chemical imbalance in brain", kills family
Teen, mother slain by estranged stepfather — (Charlotte.com)
Chaplain died of drug overdose — (The Salisbury Post)
STRESS, DEPRESSION CONTRIBUTED TO ATTACK, FIRED PLANT WORKER SAYS — (Winston-Salem Journal)
Duke witnesses tell of fear that gripped them in confrontation — (The News & Observer)
Family struggles with murder close to hearts; A sister is left to ask ‘Why?’ — (Visalia Times-Delta)
Man captured after standoff; BBs, pellets, paintballs fired at media, police officers — (Wilmington Star-News)
MURDER CASE GOES TO THE JURY GIRL, 16, SAYS SHE DRANK BEER, TOOK DRUGS BEFORE HER GRANDFATHER WAS SHOT TO DEATH — (Winston-Salem Journal)
Slain 8-year-old ‘was the perfect kid,’ his aunt says — (The Daily Reflector)
Company facing suit in shooting rampage — (The News & Observer)
SSRI Ed note: Two shot, onme dies at Drexel Heritage plant
LANDLORD DESCRIBES FINDING BODY, CHRISTENE KEMMERLIN’S LANDLORD TESTIFIES THAT HE THOUGHT WAYNE KEMMERLIN’S BODY HAD BEEN MOVED BEFORE HE FOUND IT — (Greensboro News & Record)
MAN SENTENCED TO 29 YEARS FOR RUNNING OVER WIFE, HER MALE FRIEND — (Asheville Citizen-Times)
Police Chief’s Wife Sentenced to Prison Time for Hiring Hit Man to Kill Husband — (WRAL.com)
MANAGED-CARE COMPANY BLAMED; Secret deal settles suit over teen-ager’s suicide — (Star-News)
YADKIN MAN SAYS HE CAN’T REMEMBER FATAL SHOOTING — (Winston-Salem Journal)
WADE BYRD FIGHTS FOR AN EVEN PLAYING FIELD — (The Fayetteville Observer)
State v. Jones — (Justia Law)
SSRI Ed note: Man on Prozac murders wife who left him
US Air patron mixed medication, alcohol — (The Durham Herald-Sun)
Friends remember stormy affair that ended in standoff, death — (The News & Observer)
Man gets maximum term for shooting — (The News & Observer)
SSRI Ed note: Man taking antidepressants suffers mental ill health, shoots and permantly injures boyfriend of estranged wife.
Extradition Hearing Set For Md. Slaying Suspect – Authorities Anticipate Prozac Defense — (Washington Post)
SSRI Ed note: Man on Prozac kills estranged wife, flees with 2 sons.
Trial begins for man charged with stabbing wife to death — (The News & Observer)
SSRI Ed note: Man on antidepressants attempts murder suicide, stabs wife to death, drinks toxic liquid but lives.
Doctor Given 6-Month Jail Term — (Fayetteville Observer)
SSRI Ed note: Physician takes too much Prozac, tries to hire hitman to kill wife's friend. Gets 15 yrs.
Velma Margie Barfield: 1st female murderer executed in North Carolina since 1976 — (Clark County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office)
SSRI Ed note: Woman addicted to cocktail of prescription medications including antidepressants kills her mother, 2 husbands, employers, for money. She is executed in 1984.