Archive for Assault – Page 2

Inquest examines fatal shooting of scissor-wielding man in East Huntingdon store — (Tribune-Review)
Spike in heroin-related deaths in area reflects access, potency — (The Blade)
Case of Daniel J. — (Superior Court of Los Angeles County)
Troopers open fire after driver rams cruiser at Dunkin' Donuts — (WCVB.com)
Health Canada tight-lipped on Champix suicides — (Toronto Star)
Teenager’s girlfriend attack blamed on antidepressant side effects — (The Courier)
SSRI Ed note: Teen on Prozac breaks up with girlfriend, assaults her, teachers say this is "completely out of character". He loses chance to go to university.
Grandmother, 50, who 'spat at and punched' flight crew blames 'medication' breakdown — (Daily Mail)
Husbands Prozac Induced Mania- Please help — (MD Junction)
American Airlines Flight Disruption Blamed on ‘Mental Episode’ — (Bloomberg)
Woman sentenced for assault — (The Daily Mining Gazette)
Fartown man who killed his dad had attacked his wife and mum before — (The Huddersfield Daily Examiner)
SSRI Ed note: Man on antidepressants becomes violent, drinks, gambles, and attacks father, who dies, while in withdrawal.
Emmanuel Clothakis apologizes for attacking letter carrier — (Oneida Dispatch)
Care in the community patient killed partner and daughter in front of boy, four — (The Daily Mail)
SSRI Ed note: Man in antidepressant withdrawal stabs ex-lover and her daughter to death in "frenzied attack", is then diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, locked up.
Woman gets jail time for kicking police officer — (Franklin News-Post)
Jealous man twice hit out in ‘frenzied’ attacks — (Worcester News)
Former chef attacks two police officers in house rage — (The Gloucester Citizen)
Man who threw a bin at his girlfriend jailed — (Plymouth Herald)
Jackson firefighter sentenced for punching then-wife with his fist — (ClarionLedger.com)
One in five MPs on meds for depression, claims Andrew Robb — (The Australian)
Attack victim feared for baby — (Derbyshire Times)
Parent charged with assaulting Stockton principal — (News10ABC)
Two PCs attacked attending 999 call — (The Hayling Islander)
Air rage passenger attacked her husband and flight crew on holiday jet to Caribbean — (Manchester Evening News)
Warrior man arrested while nude, says deputies ordered him out after he had been in shower — (The Birmingham News)
Woman is sentenced for attack in fish bar — (Bury Free Press)
Man raped 85yo for thrill, court hears — (Sydney Morning Herald)
Child’s multiple diagnoses create challenges for Topeka family — (The Topeka Capital-Journal )
SSRI Ed note: Child given "more than 60" meds, many diagnoses finally gets only Adderall, Seroquel +Zoloft, still aggressive. A miracle that he can manage at all.
Expert says murder victim Daugherty ingested 'lethal dose' of antidepressant — (Tribune Review)
Man details brother’s struggle with mental illness before Thursday’s fatal shooting by police — (The Syracuse Post-Standard)
SSRI Ed note: Isolated army vet on meds for decades stops them, becomes delusional, paranoid, points a pellet gun at police, is shot and killed. Mental illness blamed.
Ex-Prisoner threatened to kell baby with knife, Bristol Crown Court hears — (Bristol Post)
SSRI Ed note: Ex-prisoner on anti-depressants assaults wife, threatens child. This is out-of-character behaviour.
Man on sex charges took his own life — (Manchester Evening News)
Drunk Westport man who assaulted garda in mid-afternoon jailed for three months — (The Mayo News)
Prescription Drugs Associated with Reports of Violence Towards Others [SSRI’s among highest] — (PLoS)
Bipolar man shot to death by cops off his meds — (CTV News)
SSRI Ed note: Unarmed man advises spychiatrist he is suffering bad reaction, has stopped meds for "bipolar", has incident at bus stop, shot and killed by police. No charges.
I Killed my Stepfather — (The Bristol Post)
Student nurse punched and kneed in head — (Worcester News)
SSRI Ed note: Woman on antidepressants drinks, assaults two women in car, cannot remember after. Charged.
Court told how dad tried to rip baby from womb — (Southern Daily Echo)
Child put in danger by drunken Worcestershire psychic — (Worcester News)
Home detention for robbing city taxi driver — (Bay of Plenty Times)
Hallucinations in Hospital Pose Risk to Elderly — (The New York Times)
Mother Given Cymbalta For Fibromyalgia Becomes Manic & Dangerous
Man Singes Police Officers Eyebrows During Road Rage Rampage
Coroner's jury rules cause of death of man shot by Taser 'undetermined' — (The State Journal-Register)
SSRI Ed note: Man on Prozac, Wellbutrin breaks into neighbours' home, beats a woman, is subdued, dies en route to hospital.
Father: Son may have had breakdown — (Sentinel and Enterprise)
SSRI Ed note: National Guard captain has manic episode on Paxil, assaults 4, screams about bomb in car, job loss likely due to incident.
Discharged patient commits murder-suicide — were her docs to blame? — (Healthcare Business & Technology)
SSRI Ed note: Woman on "psychotropic prescriptions" for depression, "bipolar disorder" has psychotic break, kills niece, nephew and self. Family blames everything buit meds.
Witnesses: Kenneth Shipp Shot Huntsville Police Officer Eric Freeman Between The Eyes During Crash Investigation — (NewsWire)
SSRI Ed note: Man on Xanax, hydrocodone; and Prozac (fluoxetine), drinks, shoots and kills police officer during investigation of traffic accident. Gets life.
Driver Smashes the Face of a Man in Another Vehicle
Policemen Becomes Violent
It's Not a Game: Diary of a Private Investigator/Bounty Hunter — (AuthorHouse)
Man, 21, faces charges for assaulting, threatening Benson cop during altercation — (West Central Tribune)
SSRI Ed note: Man, 21, consumes bottle of antidepressants, becomes violent and abusive.