Here is a link to the above study:-
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http://knol.google.com/k/mothers-who-murder-their-children#Link to further study of interest to the instant case:-
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http://www.teenscreentruth.com/psychiatry_drugs_suicide.html(3)
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March 6, 1985: Atlanta postal worker Steven W. Brownlee, pulled a pistol from his pocket and shot and killed a supervisor and a clerk. Another clerk was wounded. Brownlee had been receiving treatment and psychotropic drugs at the Grady Memorial Psychotropic Unit prior to his violent attack.
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November 20, 1986: Rod Mathews, age 14; Canton, Massachusetts; Matthews beat a classmate to death with a baseball bat in the woods near his home. He had been prescribed Ritalin since the third grade.
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April 23, 1987: Palm Bay, Florida; William Cruse was charged with killing six people in a shooting rampage. Cruse had been seeing a Kentucky psychiatrist and stated he had been taking psychiatric drugs for several years.
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November 26, 1987: Bartley James Dobben killed his two young sons by throwing them into a 1,300-degree foundry ladle. He had been placed on a regimen of psychiatric drugs in 1985. Mr. Dobben, 28 years old, received the mandatory sentence of life in prison from Judge James Graves Jr. of Muskegon County Circuit Court.
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May 20, 1988: Laurie Dann, age 31; In Winnetka, Illinois; Dann walked into a second grade classroom carrying three pistols and began shooting innocent little children. She killed one, wounded six, and then killed herself. Autopsy reports revealed that her body contained high amounts of Anafranil [by Norvatis] and Lithium.
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September 26, 1988: 19-year old James Wilson; Greenwood, South Carolina; Went on a shooting rampage at the Greenwood Elementary School, killing two 8-year-old girls and wounding seven other children and two teachers. Since the age of 14, he had been given psychiatric drugs, including Xanax, Valium, Vistaril, Mellaril, Thorazine, Tofranil and Halcion. He was withdrawing from Xanax at the time of the shooting spree.
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January 17, 1989: Patrick Purdy, age 25; Purdy opened fire on a school yard full of young children in Stockton, California. During his vicious and unprovoked assault, Purdy killed five schoolchildren and wounded thirty others before killing himself. During the two years prior to the murders of the Stockton children, Purdy had been treated by psychiatrists who put him on the mind altering drugs Thorazine and Amitriptyline.
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April 12, 1989: Abbie Hoffman; At the age of 52, activist
and author, Hoffman committed suicide. He had been taking
Prozac. Hoffman was a social and political activist in the United States, co-founder of the Youth International Party. He came to prominence in the 1960's, but practiced most of his activism in the 1970's, and has remained a symbol of the youth rebellion of that decade.
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September 14, 1989: Louisville, Kentucky: Joseph T. Wesbecker, 47: One month after he began taking Prozac, Wesbecker shot 20 workers at Standard Gravure Corp., with an AK-47, killing 9 of them. Wesbecker was included in the fatalities with a self-inflicted pistol shot to the chin. "The doctor noted that he got agitated and possibly deluded, and he said 'stop the Prozac', and it was days after that, with the Prozac still in his system, that he committed these murders and suicide." The Eli Lilly pharmaceutical company, manufacturers of Prozac, had to contend with the damage suit brought by the survivors of Wesbecker's murder spree and the families of the dead, who alleged that his action had been caused by his use of Prozac. The antidepressant drug accounted for about a third of Lilly's multibillion-dollar sales, and eventually the company settled the case via a payout kept secret even from the judge.
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March 8, 1990: Oregon; Courtney Reynolds, 16-years-old; Suicide; Took an overdose of Desipramine. Courtney had been taking two anti-depressants, Desipramine and Zoloft, for six to eight months.
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July 24, 1990: San Jose, CA: Gail Ann Ransom, 40-yr-old nurse: Murdered her mother, Lucille Boomer, 61. Ransom carried a Bible and a bottle of Prozac as she drove from Clovis to San Jose, where she strangled her mother. In court Ransom admitted using a drapery cord and a coat hanger to strangle her mother, she then covered her mother's face with a plastic bag. Ransom had become increasingly violent after beginning her Prozac treatment.
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August 1991: “Corky” Berman; Chicago, Illinois; Berman leapt from the 37th floor of the Carbon and Carbide Building, in which Berman’s psychologist kept his office. He was seeing a psychologist for therapy and a psychiatrist for his prescriptions. Two weeks after his dose of Prozac was bumped up dramatically, and a few hours after visiting his psychologist—who saw him as apparently normal and definitely not suicidal—Berman jumped to his death. He was on Prozac with the sedative Trazodone to counteract the side effects from the Prozac.
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November 6, 1991: 61-year-old Barbara Mortenson greeted San Francisco police officers at her home in a blood-soaked night-gown. Dried blood covered her face. Pieces of raw flesh lay behind her on the carpet. She had just cannibalized her 87-year-old mother with at least 20 bites on her face and arms. At several places, her mother’s arm had been “chewed to the bone.” She had “...been taking Prozac for the last two weeks.”
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November 17, 1991: West Jordan, UT: Margaret Kastanis: Used a knife and hammer to kill her three children then stabbed herself to death, after extended Prozac treatment.
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April 28 1992: Cambridge, MA, Kenneth Seguin, 35, drugged his two children, seven-year-old Daniel and 5-year-old Amy, then cut their throats and wrists and dumped their bodies in a nearby pond before driving home and killing his wife with an axe while she slept then dumping her body into a river. Prior to the events Sequin had been described as a “model husband and father”. He was on Prozac at the time.
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November 1992: Lynnwood Drake III, in San Luis Obisbo and Morro Bay, California, shot and killed six people with a handgun before he killed himself. Metabolized Prozac and Valium were both found in his system.
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June 11, 1993: Victor Brancaccio, aged 16, Florida: Attacked and killed an 81-year-old woman. He then hid her body and covered her corpse in red spray-paint. He had also tried to burn the pelvic area of the woman’s dead body. He was 2 months into taking Zoloft at the time of the murder.
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October 1993: 15-year-old Gerard McCra: Massachusetts: Shot his parents and sister to death. He had been taking Ritalin since the age of six.
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December 1993: Steven Lieth of Chelsea, Michigan; Lieth walked back into a school meeting and fatally shot the school superintendent and wounded two others including a fellow teacher. He was on Prozac at the time of the shootings.
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December 15 and 21, 1994: New York City; Edward Leary, 50, of Scotch Plains, N.J; Leary exploded two homemade bombs on the subway trains, injuring three teenagers the first time and 47 people, 17 of them seriously, including Leary, the second time. The second bomb sent a fireball whooshing through a subway car while the train was parked in a station. Leary was on a prescribed combination of Prozac, Effexor, and 2 other psych drugs.
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1995: Jarred Viktor, 16 years-old; Escondido, California; Stabbed his grandmother 61 times. Ten days prior to the murder, Jarred had been prescribed the anti-depressant Paxil.
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October 17, 1995: Brian E. Pruitt, 16; Pruitt fatally stabbed his grandparents. He had a history of psychiatric treatment and had been prescribed "medication." The exact drug is not known at this time.
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Oct. 24, 1995: Dr. Debora Green, age 44, Prairie Village, MO; Green set her home on fire, killing two of her children, Kelly and Tim Farrar, ages 6 and 13. A third child, Kate Farrar, 10, escaped the blaze. Green is serving time for the murders and for attempting to poison her husband, Michael Farrar. Green was on four different types of medications including Prozac.
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November 3, 1995: Sergeant Steven B. Christian, a twenty-five-year commended veteran of the Dallas police force drove to a police sub-station and seriously wounded an officer outside in his attempt to get inside and shoot others. Christian was shot and killed by two fellow Dallas police officers. The autopsy revealed high levels of an antidepressant in his blood.
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November 10, 1995: Rigby, Idaho; 15-year-old Chris Shanahan; Out of the blue killed a woman. Shanahan walked up and shot her in the back of the head with his rifle during a robbery attempt. He was taking Paxil.
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December 18, 1995: Kristina Fetters, a 14-year-old from Des Moines, Iowa; Stabbed her favorite great aunt to death with a kitchen knife, then sobbed as the aunt died in her arms. She was taking Prozac.
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March 1996: Reginald Payne, 63, a teacher in Great Britain, suffocated his wife and threw himself off a cliff after having taking Prozac for just 11 days.
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February 19, 1996: Timmy Becton, 10; Grabbed his three-year-old niece as a shield and aimed a shotgun at a sheriff's deputy who accompanied a truant officer to his Florida home. Becton had been taken to a psychiatrist in January to cure his dislike of school and was put on a psychiatric drug, Prozac. His parents said that when the dosage of the drug was increased, Timmy had violent mood swings and that he would "get really angry..."
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March 1996: Daryl Dempsay, 35, Burlington, Kan. Dempsay stabbed his wife and two children at their home, then shot and killed himself with a .22-caliber rifle. His wife and children survived and filed a suit against the manufacturer of Zoloft claiming that Daryl became violent because of an adverse reaction to the Zoloft.
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April of 1996: Kurt Danysh (18); Was prescribed the drug Prozac (from Eli Lilly) by a general practitioner who failed to perform any psychological testing. Shortly after beginning to take his Prozac prescription, Kurt, a normally outgoing teenager, became withdrawn and moody. By the second week, he was restless and violent. He got into a fight with his best friend and purposely crashed his truck into a stone wall. This was out of character for Kurt. Seventeen days after his first dose of Prozac, he shot and killed his father by firing a shotgun blast into his father's head. Kurt had no history of violence prior to Prozac. He was convicted of murdering his father and sentenced to 22.5 to 60 years in prison. Kurt later said, "I didn't realize I did it until after it was done, and then I realized it. This might sound weird, but it felt like I had no control of what I was doing, like I was left there just holding a gun."
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July 1996: In Japan, a 16-year-old high school student was stabbed by two boys, ages 15 and 16, who said they had been taking a sedative (sleeping pill) because it made them "invincible."
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November 20, 1996: 14-year-old Rod Mathews beat a classmate to death with a bat in the woods near his home in Canton, MA. He had been prescribed Ritalin since the third grade.
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On November 23, 1996: Prince George's County, Maryland; Julie Marie Meade (16); Called 911 and told police to come and kill her. If they didn't, she would kill herself or she might kill them. The police arrived. They put 10 bullets into her and killed her as she waved a gun around. She had been on Prozac for four years.
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1997: Brian Storey, was 17 years old when the family doctor diagnosed him with and gave him 14 Zoloft pills. The doctor never warned him about side effects and "even said if a person is drinking or doing drugs, that Zoloft works well with them," Brian's mother said. Five days later, Brian killed a woman. After his arrest, authorities found no illegal drugs in his system, only Zoloft.
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Feburary 14, 1997: Pollack Pines, California; Benjamin Bratt, 13 years old, committed suicide by hanging himself. He was on Paxil.
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May 1, 1997: San Jose, California; Reynaldo Lacuzong, 35; Lacuzong left a suicide note in his home indicating that he had killed his daughter, Rechelle, 9, and his son, Reneil, 5, and then himself, police said. The bodies were found in a bathtub. Lacuzong was taking Paxil at the time of the murders.
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May 23, 1997: Christopher Vasquez, 15-years-old, stabbed Michael McMorrow, 44, to death in Central Park. Vasquez was on Zoloft.
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May 25, 1997: 18-year-old Jeremy Strohmeyer; Las Vegas, Nevada; Raped and murdered a 7-year-old girl. Strohmeyer had been diagnosed with ADD and prescribed Dexedrine, a Ritalin-like drug, immediately prior to the killing.
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July 28, 1997: Matt Miller, 13-years-old from Overland Park, Kansas, was given free samples of Zoloft by his psychiatrist. Seven days later, a day prior to going on a much looked forward to vacation, Matt hung himself in his bedroom closet.
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September 27, 1997: Sam Manzie, a 16-year-old, Jackson Township, New Jersey boy; Raped and strangled to death an 11-year-old boy who was selling door-to-door for the local Parent-Teacher Association. Manzie was under psychiatric care at the time and being "medicated" with Paxil. He reportedly told his mother, "I wasn't killing that little boy. I was killing (my doctor) because he didn't listen to me." Sam's story has been chronicled in the book, "Innocent Victims" by Brian J. Karem.
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October 1st, 1997: Luke Woodham, a 16-year old in Pearl Mississippi; Stabbed his mother, 50-year-old Mary Woodam, to death and then went to his high school where he shot nine people — killing two teenage girls and wounding seven others. Published reports say he was on Prozac.
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October 28, 1997: California; Susan Eubanks, 33-years-old; Shot her four children to death and then turned the gun on herself, shooting herself in the stomach, she lived. The 6-year-old, 7-year-old and 14-year-old sons died instantly from gun shots to the head. Her 4-year-old son was found by sheriff deputies in critical condition and later died in the hospital. Susan was taking Valium.
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December 1, 1997: Michael Carneal, a 14-year-old, Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky; Opened fire on students at a high school prayer meeting. Three teenagers were killed, five others were wounded, one of whom was paralyzed. Carneal was reportedly on Ritalin.
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January 6, 1998: Dallas, Texas; 18-year-old Sara Lowe; Lowe shot her boyfriend, 26-year-old Tucker Soggs. Lowe went to the tanning salon where Soggs worked and shot him several times in the parking lot and then turned the gun on herself. She was taking Prozac at the time of the murder-suicide.
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February 1998: Wyoming;Donald Schnell (60); 48 hours after starting Paxil, he abruptly flew into a rage and killed his wife, his daughter, and his grand daughter before killing himself. It had taken only two Paxil tablets to induce the rage. A jury found Paxil at cause and ordered GlaxoSmithKline to pay $6.4 million to surviving family members
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March 6, 1998: in Connecticut, Mathew Beck, a lottery accountant, reported promptly to his job, hung up his coat and methodically gunned down 4 of his bosses, one of whom he chased through a parking lot before he turned the gun on himself. Beck had been seeing a psychiatrist and taking three types of “medication” including Luvox.
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March 10th, 1998: Jeff Franklin, 17-years-old, Huntsville, Alabama; Killed his parents as they came home from work. He used a sledge hammer, hatchet, butcher knife and mechanic’s file. He attacked and then left his seriously injured brothers (ages 6 and 9), and 12-year-old sister to bleed to death. Fortunately all siblings survived. He was on Ritalin, a stimulant; Prozac, an anti-depressant; and Klonopin, an anti-convulsant.
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March 23, 1998: Daly City, CA; Megan Hogg, 25-years-old, duct taped the mouths and noses of her three little girls, ages 7, 3 and 2, and took a handful of pills, intending to kill herself. She was seeing a psychiatrist and was taking Prozac in addition to painkillers for a head injury she had suffered during a car accident in January. That morning, she wrote a 2-page letter detailing how she was going to kill her daughters, according to police. She drank a mixture of hot chocolate and prescription drugs, officers said. Then using duct tape, she allegedly bound each of her daughters' hands and sealed their mouths and noses. She also held each child down until she suffocated, investigators said. In the letter she stated, "I, Megan Hogg, have ended the lives of my daughters, Antoinette, Angelique and Alexandra in my bed by suffocation. I have also consumed very high amounts of Vicodin, codeine, Tylenol with codeine, Motrin and Trazodone. Never before have I considered ending the girl's lives. Myself, however, it's something I have thought of frequently. This is to notify anyone necessary that this was a sole action and included help and knowledge of no other.” Hogg survived and was arrested the following morning.
Megan's father wrote to TeenScreen Truth and said: "You need to know the rest of her story. In addition to Prozac she had been prescribed 14 different drugs by her team of doctors." "seizures + cold turkey + more seizures + 10 days = something that changed our lives forever."
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March 24, 1998: Jonesboro, Arkansas; 11-year-old Andrew Golden and 14-year-old Mitchell Johnson; Apparently, the boys faked a fire alarm at Westside Middle School. When everyone came outside, the boys fired on them from the nearby woods. They shot 15 people, killing four students, one teacher, and wounding 10 others. According to one report, the boys were believed to be on Ritilan.
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April 22, 1998: Ingelwood, CA; David Rothman, 51-year-old Vietnam War veteran and employed with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). In January of 1994, Rothman started taking Prozac while under psychiatric care. From that point on, Rothman's relationship with USDA management became stormy. At approximately 3 p.m. that day in 1998, Rothman shot and killed two supervisors, co-workers of his, at the USDA building. Following the killings, Rothman turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.
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May 21, 1998: Kip Kinkel a 15-year-old of Springfield, Oregon; Murdered his parents and proceeded to his high school where he went on a rampage killing two students and wounding 22 others. Kinkel had been prescribed both Prozac and Ritalin and had been attending “anger control classes”.
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May 28, 1998: Encino, California: 40 year old Brynn Hartman; Shot and killed her husband, actor Phil Hartman, as he slept. The following morning she committed suicide. She was taking Zoloft. Reports say she had been complaining to friends that she felt odd after taking Zoloft, which was given to her as a sample pack. Relatives of the Hartmans released the following statement: "Phil and Brynn were a loving couple, devoted to each other and their children. This tragedy is not indicative of who she was or who they were together." According to the executor of Hartman's estate, Zoloft manufacturer (Pfizer Inc.) and Brynn Hartman's psychiatrist, Arthur Sorosky, were at fault for Hartman's death. A wrongful death suit was filed against them both. Pfizer settled the wrongful death case for an undisclosed amount.
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November 12, 1998: California, Victor Motus was scheduled to fly to Washington DC to receive an award from President Clinton for his work in a local school district, when instead, he killed himself. He had stated on multiple occasions previously that the Zoloft he was using was making him "crazy," he had taken it for 6 days, during which time he became agitated and confused and began to have thoughts of suicide. In December of 2001, his wife sued Pfizer for selling a drug that drove her husband to suicide.
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November 30, 1998: Dalton Township, MI: Seth Privacky, 18-years-old; Shot his grandfather, parents, brother and brother’s girlfriend while celebrating a late Thanksgiving. He was on Wellbutrin.
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January 30, 1999: 5-week-old Tyra Ehlis; Grand Forks, North Dakota; Tyra's father, Ron, took a shotgun and killed his daughter in a psychotic episode, then shot himself in the abdomen, he survived. Ten days before, he had started taking Adderall. Ehlis said he was completely unaware that psychosis was even a possible side effect of Adderall. As a child, Ron was put on Ritalin. He went to see a psychiatrist at age 26, because he was having a hard time with his college studies. Without conducting any type of tests the doctor prescribed Adderall. After a few days, he did as the doctor instructed and doubled the dose, and Ron's nightmare began. He described delusions, hallucinations and out-of-body experiences, including talking with God and his dead grandfather after he upped the dose. Believing to be acting under God’s orders, Ron shot his baby daughter and then himself. He was charged with murder, but the charges were dismissed after several doctors testifed
that he suffered from an amphetamine-induced psychotic disorder caused by the Adderall and did not have the necessary criminal responsibility. Angie Moreno, the baby's mother, testifed that Ron did not act like himself from the first day he took the Adderall.
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March 4, 1999: Marilyn Lemak, Naperville, Illinois; Lemak was
convicted of killing her three children, Nicholas, 7, Emily, 6 and Thomas, 3, by drugging the children with a mixture of aspirin, Zoloft and the tranquilizer Ativan before smothering them with her bare hands. Authorities said Lemak, a nurse, tried to kill herself with the same medication she gave her children and then slashed her arm when her attempt to overdose failed. She was on Zoloft and Ativan.
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April 16th, 1999: 15-year-old Shawn Cooper of Notus, Idaho took a 12- gauge shot gun to school and started firing, injuring one student and holding the school hostage for about 20 minutes. Cooper had been taking Ritalin when he fired the shotgun's rounds and was reported to be on a mix of antidepressants.
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April 20, 1999: Columbine, Colorado; 18-year-old Eric Harris had been taking an antidepressant when he killed twelve classmates, a teacher and wounded 24 others before taking his own life in the bloodiest school massacre in history. Toxicology reports confirmed that Luvox, an antidepressant, was in Harris’ system. He had previously been on Zoloft. Dylan Klebold (17), Harris' accomplice in the shootings, committed suicide immediately following the shootings of his classmates.
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April 28, 1999: Todd Cameron Smith walked into his Taber, Alberta, Canadian high school with a sawed-off shotgun and shot and killed 16-year-old Jason Lang and wounded another boy. Todd had been prescribed Dexedrine after a 5 minute phone consultation with a psychiatrist. Soon after going on the medication Todd committed the senseless crime.
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May 4, 1999: Steven Allen Abrams rammed his car into a preschool playground in Costa Mesa, California killing two and injuring five. He had been placed on probation in 1994 which required him to see a psychiatrist and take Lithium.
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May 20, 1999: TJ Solomon, a 15-year-old high school student at Heritage High School in Conyers, Georgia: While on a mix of antidepressants, opened fire on and wounded six of his classmates. Thankfully, none were killed.
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June 3, 1999: Hugh Blowers, 17 years old, Pearl City, Hawaii; hanged himself in his bedroom after a week on Prozac. Blowers had described symptoms of akathisia in an e-mail to a friend just before he killed himself, and his friends described a marked change in character after he had taken only seven Prozac tablets.
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June 10, 1999: East Hartford, Connecticut; Kelly Silk, 32-years-old.
Jessica Silk, 9-years-old, had awakened to sounds of a scuffle. Wandering into her parents' room, she saw her mother stabbing her father to death. Catching sight of the witness, Kelly Silk turned the knife on her daughter, stabbing her more than 60 times. As Jessica continued struggling to escape, her mother poured gasoline on both of them and lit a match. The little girl managed to get away and ran to neighbors across the cul-de-sac, stumbling into their yard with her hair and pajamas ablaze and screaming, "Help! My mommy is having a nightmare!". The neighbors quickly called 911. Moments after firefighters arrived, one came out of the blazing house carrying a blackened little bundle in his arms, 2-month-old Joshua. "Joshua was as black as a piece of coal when they pulled him out," the neighbor recalled. "We didn't think he was going to make it." Amazingly, 2-month-old Joshua did survive as well as Jessica, but Joshua was the last family member who would leave the house alive that night. Inside, rescuers found the bodies of his mother and father, Charlie and Kelly Silk, plus a sister, Jennifer, nearly 3 years old, and a brother, Jonah, just a year and a half. Prozac.
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July 29, 1999: Atlanta, GA; Mark Barton 44; On Tuesday, Barton went home and killed his wife. On Wednesday, he killed his two children. On Thursday, Barton carried out Atlanta's worst mass murder when he opened fire with two pistols at two different brokerage firms. In addition to the nine deaths at two Atlanta office buildings, another 13 people were wounded. Barton, who had bludgeoned his wife and two young children to death, killed himself in his van in an Atlanta suburb as police closed in on him. Prozac was later found in the van. "There was little pain," Barton wrote, describing how he bludgeoned his second wife, Leigh Ann, 27, and his two children from his first marriage — 11-year-old Matthew and 7-year-old Elizabeth Mychelle. "All of them were dead in less than five minutes. I hit them with a hammer in their sleep and then put them face down in the bathtub to make sure they did not wake up in pain," Barton wrote. "I have been dying since October," Barton wrote.
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August 1, 1999: Tumbarumba, Australia; David Hawkins, 76, strangled
his wife Margaret, 70, at their hobby farm. Hours before the killing, police
said Hawkins took five Zoloft tablets - five times the prescribed dosage.
Hawkins recalls only taking one. The Zoloft was prescribed for him the day
before, for a bout of depression sparked by the sale of the couple's farm.
The NSW Supreme Court judge said it was "overwhelmingly probable"
that Mrs Hawkins would not have died if her husband had not taken Zoloft.
"The killing was totally out of character for the prisoner, inconsistent with the loving caring relationship which existed between him and his wife and with
their happy marriage of almost 50 years," Justice O'Keefe told the court.
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August 10, 1999: Buford O'Neal Furrow Jr.; Los Angeles, CA; Walked into the North Valley Jewish Community Center and, without a word, fired 70 rounds with a Uzi-type gun, wounding five people, 4 of them children. The day before he had shot and killed a postal worker. Reported to have been court ordered to be on Prozac along with several other medications.
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September 15, 1999: Fort Worth, Texas; Larry Ashbrook (47); At the Wedgwood Baptist Church, Ashbrook opened fire in the church during a prayer meeting and killed four teenagers, three adults and wounded seven, before taking his own life. He was taking Eli Lilly's Prozac.
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September 1999: Spokane, Washington; 8-year-old Jessica Curry was stabbed to death by her mother Sharon, as she sat on her mother's lap in the passenger seat of her mother's Mustang convertible, discussing what she
wanted to wear for Halloween. After she told her mother that she wanted a princess costume, Sharon, 40, stabbed Jessica 5 times and then stabbed herself. A short time later a policeman found Sharon and Jessica still sitting in the car in the driveway, all covered in blood. When the officer asked Sharon what happened, she asked him for a cigarette. The mother lived, but Jessica did not. Sharon Curry was on Paxil and Adderall at the time of this tragedy.
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November 22, 1999: Socorro Caro, 44; Northridge,
California; Socorro shot and killed three of her four children
as they slept. She was angry after a fight with her husband
and methodically shot the boys, Joey, 11, Michael, 8 and Christopher, 5 asleep in their beds with a .38 caliber handgun. Caro then shot herself in the head in an attempted suicide, but survived. A 4th child, an infant, was unharmed. Caro was on Prozac and an anti-anxiety medication.
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December 6, 1999: Seth Trickey, Gibson Okla., at age 13; Was on numerous prescription medications and undergoing psychological counseling when he opened fire on his middle-school classmates wounding five.
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Jan. 5, 2000: Caitlin E. McIntosh, age 12; Died just 8 weeks after being puton Paxil then Zoloft, of antidepressant-induced suicide. Caitlin was a straight “A” student in 5th grade, a talented musician, artist and poet, who loved animals and wanted to be a veterinarian. Then sixth grade began, and combined with the onset of puberty, this bright, sensitive girl who had once loved going to school, was having trouble coping. She was also having problems sleeping. Her parents wanted to help, so they took her to their family physician who gave her Paxil. She didn’t do well at all on it, so he took her off - cold turkey. When they saw a psychiatrist a week later, he put her on Zoloft. Caitlin hung herself with her shoelaces in the girl’s bathroom at the Middle School she was attending. Her parent's said: "We were told that antidepressants like Paxil and Zoloft were ‘wonder drugs’ and that they were safe and effective for children. We were lied to."
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March 18, 2000: Scottsdale, Arizona; 3-yr-old Nathaniel Branson; Nat's mother Dawn was driving with her son in the car when she heard a voice saying: "Let go of the steering wheel and gas. God will drive the car don't you trust him?" According to court documents, she did as the voice said. The resulting crash ended with her son's death and serious injuries to herself. She was on Adderall. Prior to being prescribed the drug, she had never been psychotic and since she quit taking it there have been no further psychotic episodes.
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June 3, 2000: Orem, Utah; Kevin Neil Rider, 14, committed suicide while on Prozac. His mother writes: "Our doctor convinced me that Prozac was right... Three months into his Prozac therapy I took my son back in to see if there was something else we could try. My son didn't want to be on this drug. He claimed it made him feel 'weird'... I asked [the doctor] what he knew about St. John's Wort, which I had heard helped with depression. He was very much against any product that you could simply pick off any shelf in a regular supermarket. He explained that St. John's Wort did not have any guarantee of safety, whereas Prozac had been proven safe, and had FDA approval. He determined that what my son needed was a higher dose, and promptly doubled it to 20 mg. per day." A few days later Kevin took his father's gun, walked into a nearby orchard and shot himself in the head. Kevin's mother said, "I wish I had known all that I do now about these drugs. Do you think I would have agreed to this drug if I had all of the information? Of course not..." She has since become a strong anti-drugging advocate.
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July, 2000: St. George, Utah; Steven Bingham, 53. A truck driver from Utah, Bingham was convicted in the sexual assault of an 8-year-old girl he had kidnapped. Bingham had no prior criminal record, but he was taking Adderall to treat ADHD.
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December 12, 2000: Wetumpka, Alabama; 14-year-old Jacob Williams;
Committed suicide while on Prozac for just 7 weeks. His mother, Terri
Willimas, found her son dead, hanging in the attic. She has since become
a strong anti-drugging advocate, testifying in front of the FDA and appearing on TV, warning others of the dangers of these drugs. She states that had she known of the side-effects, she would have never allowed her son to take the drug.
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December 26, 2000: Wakefield MA; Michael McDermott, 42; Shot and killed seven co-workers in a killing rampage at Edgewater Technology where he was a software tester. Immediately after the shootings he waited patiently in the lobby for arrest. Prozac, Paxil and Desyrel were found in his apartment. It's confirmed he was on Prozac.
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March 7, 2001: Elizabeth Bush, 14-years-old; Was on the antidepressant Prozac, when she shot and wounded another student at Bishop Neumann High School in Williamsport, Pa.
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March 17, 2001: Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida; Leslie Demeniuk, 31-yrs-old, killed her four-year-old twin sons James and John Demeniuk, they were found shot in the head. The killings stunned those who knew the mother; they didn’t see it coming. According to court records, Demeniuk’s Zoloft prescription was changed to Paxil two days before the killings. Demeniuk had Paxil, remnants of Zoloft, alcohol and the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in her blood during the night of the shooting.
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March 22, 2001: El Cajon, California: Jason Hoffman, at age 18, was on Effexor and Celexa, both antidepressants, when he wounded two teachers and three students at California's Granite Hills High School. Hoffman had also undergone an "anger management" program. He later committed suicide, hanging himself in his jail cell.
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April 10, 2001: Wahluke, Washington; 16-year-old Cory Baadsgaard took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates and a teacher hostage. Cory had been taken off Paxil and was taking high doses of Effexor (300 mg).
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June 7, 2001: Kara Jaye-Anne Otter, 12-years old; Suicide, after her first day of withdrawal from Paxil. Her mother said: "She had been taking Paxil for 8 months while we continuosly requested the doctor to discontinue the drug because it seemed as though it was draining the very life right out of her."
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June 8, 2001: Toyko, Japan; In what is described as the one of deadliest mass assault in Japan, 37-year-old Mamoru Takuma entered a
second-grade classroom and began systematically knifing pupils. He chased
children who fled into the hallway, then moved on to a first-grade classroom.
Takuma stabbed eight first- and second-graders to death while wounding at
least 15 other pupils and teachers before turning the knife on himself. He
suffered only superficial wounds. He had taken 10 times his normal daily
dose of an antidepressant.
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June 20, 2001: Houston, Texas; Andrea Yates, 36 years old; Yates killed her five children — Noah 7, John 5, Luke 3, Paul 2 and Mary 6 months, by drowning them in the bathtub. She had been treated with various drugs for post-partum depression, including Wellbutrin, Effexor and Haldol.
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July 22, 2001: Brandon W. Ferris, 16 years old; Fredericksburg, Virginia;
committed suicide approximately 3 weeks after he began taking the SSRI antidepressant, Zoloft.
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Nov. 12, 2001: Sabrina Wright, 31, of New York City; Drowned one of her 4-year-old twin daughters, Signifigance, in a bathtub during an exorcism because she thought the girl was possessed. Wright was on tranquilizers and anti-psychotic medications.
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November 1, 2001: Donna Ojala, 51, Superior, Wisconsin; Donna started a new medication for depression and was having hallucinations. She had told
her doctor about the hallucinations, but she didn't get the help she needed. Ojala killed herself. "She was a strong person. She had been through way more than taking these pills. She loved all of us," her daughter said. "We had a hard life, but to this day, I strongly believe it was the pills that caused her suicide. I hope I can help someone else by talking about this. If someone's mother or brother or sister is having a hard time with a medicine, they should take it seriously."
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November 17, 2001: Santa Monica CA, Katrina Sarkissian, fatally stabbed Deanna Maran, a 15-year-old girl, in the heart at a crowded Westside party. The next day, Sarkissian, collapsed while being questioned at a West Los Angeles police station and died at UCLA Medical Center. An autopsy revealed that she had taken an overdose of antidepressant tablets.
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November 28, 2001: Christopher Pittman, 12, Shot and killed his grandparents while they slept, then set their house on fire and fled in the family car. Pittman had been on Zoloft for one month and prior to that had been on Paxil.
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December 14, 2001: Granite, Utah; Lenny Gall, 16, Killed his mother, Susan Jenkins Gall, a Granite District teacher, with an axe. "He had a very significant reaction to Paxil" and was put on the antipsychotic drug Zyprexa shortly before the murder. "He's never had a shred of violence in him," said his father, Len Gall.
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January, 2002: Vancouver, Canada; Gareth Christian, 18-years-old; Gareth was an artistic, intelligent young man with a great sense of humour, excited at the prospect of starting his own snowboarding company. So when the 18-year-old Vancouver resident committed suicide, his friends and family were shocked. Gareth's father could not accept his son's death and took his own life as well. Gareth had been prescribed Paxil.
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January 25, 2002: Gainesville, FL; Tavares Eugene Williams, 18, killed his guardian, Barbara Roth, 51, by hitting Roth three times with a baseball bat. Williams was prescribed the anti-depressant drug Prozac about eight months prior to the senseless attack.
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Feb 10, 2002: Paxton, Illinois; David Hari, aged 43. Hari shot and wounded his wife and shot and killed Jeffrey Thomas. He was on Zoloft at the time of the shootings. Hari was convicted in 2002 and sentenced to 73 years but in January 2006 the Supreme Court overturned the convictions on the grounds that the judge at his trial erred by not giving the jury instruction on involuntary intoxication. A new trial commenced in March 2006.
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March 9, 2002: Carrollwood, Florida; Joey Casseday was just 16, when he hung himself in the family garage. His father said: "he killed himself, despite the fact that he was on an anti-depressant." He was taking Celexa.
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April 10, 2002: Sean McEvoy, 15; Howell, Michigan. Vandalized and set fire to his high school, resulting in nearly $1 million in damages. McEvoy was taking Paxil, a powerful antidepressant, for the 12 days prior to the incident.
