Man accused of killing Palmdale sheriff’s deputy heard voices and was twice committed, but allegedly purchased a gun legally. How could that happen?
heard them, urging him to fly from his home in Minnesota to Orange County, where he bludgeoned a mother of two to death in 1994.
To be sure, the vast majority of the severely mentally ill do not commit violent crimes. Mental illness contributes to only about 4% of all violence, and even less to gun violence, according to researchers.“There’s no silver bullet,” said Steve Lindley, senior program manager at the gun-reform group Brady United and former chief of California’s Bureau of Firearms. “None of us are walking on water, mistakes happen.
“It’s a damnable position to be in,” said Steve Pitman, president of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Orange County. “Generally, in Orange County, there are no beds.” So bad is the shortage, according to experts, that in many cases, people needing to be detained are not taken in at all. And most of those who do get detained are not kept for the full 72-hour evaluation period.Bueermann, who worked for Redlands from 1978 to 2011, remembers that in San Bernardino County hardly anyone brought in was actually committed.
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