ANTIDEPRESSANT PLUS ALCOHOL & COCAINE: OHIO SHOOTER TOXICOLOGY

Montgomery County coroner Dr. Kent Harshbarger said Connor Betts, 24, had a pipe device and a baggie of cocaine with him, and cocaine, alcohol and an antidepressant in his blood. Harshbarger also reported in his preliminary autopsy findings that police stopped Betts with at least two dozen gunshots that hit him at gaps in his body armor.

Five hours ago ten additional lives were confirmed lost to an antidepressant. Of course this news does not surprise me at all since I have been expecting this as each new piece of information about this young man has come out.
“Oh but there was also alcohol & cocaine in his system” is what Pharma & nay sayers will be quick to point out. But the sad truth is that Pharma & AA have been WELL AWARE for three decades that SSRI antidepressants produce overwhelming cravings for alcohol even in those who have never tasted alcohol before – the first adverse reaction to Prozac I ever witnessed. AA has chosen to never warn of this adverse effect of these drugs, while Pharma has danced around the warning every way possible for years.
The cravings for illegal stimulants has also long been reported by some users. Drugs like the cocaine women used to keep in a jar on their nightstands as a popular “brain stimulant”.
The very large majority of mass shooters were on only an antidepressant or a mix of an antidepressant with another prescription medication at the time of the shooting. Couple that with the fact that antidepressants work so similarly to phencycledine (PCP), the most violence producing drug the word has witnessed & I have no problem highlighting the use of antidepressants as the main cause of this tragedy.
List of school shooters & medications:

Original article: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/8/15/20807686/dayton-ohio-shooting-gunman-drugs-connor-betts

Dayton shooter had drugs in system during attack

Connor Betts was found to have cocaine, alcohol and an antidepressant in his blood, according to the Montgomery County coroner.

By Associated Press  Aug 15, 2019, 3:36pm CDT

John Seewer and Dan Sewel
Nine Killed, 27 Wounded In Mass Shooting In Dayton, OhioA memorial in Dayton, Ohio, where nine were killed in a mass shooting on August 7. The perpetrator, Connor Betts, was found to have various drugs in his system during an autopsy. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images

CINCINNATI — The Dayton shooter who killed nine people had cocaine on him and in his system during the mass shooting that police stopped in what they described as a combat-like gun battle, a coroner said Thursday.

Montgomery County coroner Dr. Kent Harshbarger said Connor Betts, 24, had a pipe device and a baggie of cocaine with him, and cocaine, alcohol and an antidepressant in his blood. Harshbarger also reported in his preliminary autopsy findings that police stopped Betts with at least two dozen gunshots that hit him at gaps in his body armor.

“This incident involved an intense firefight that is rarely seen other than combat and an active-shooter incident,” Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl said. “The officers were confronted with a moving shooter wearing body armor, actively executing victims with an AR-15 type weapon and high capacity magazines.”

The coroner said police gunfire hit two people. One of them died, but Harshbarger said the gunman, not police, fired the lethal round.

Meanwhile, Betts’ parents have apologized for the wording in his obituary that didn’t mention the mass shooting whose victims included his younger sister.

Stephen and Moira Betts issued a statement that said the obituary for Connor Betts was “insensitive in not acknowledging the terrible tragedy that he created.”

They said they wanted to reflect the son they knew and weren’t trying to “minimize horror of his last act.”The obituary described Betts as a “funny, articulate and intelligent man with striking blue eyes and a kind smile” before it was taken down Wednesday by a funeral home in their hometown of Bellbrook, Ohio.

Betts opened fire in a popular entertainment district in Dayton. Police shot him as he neared a crowded bar.

It’s not known whether Betts targeted his 22-year-old sister, Megan. They had spent an hour together at a bar in the same area before the shooting.

The family will be holding private memorial services for both of their children.

Ethan Kollie, a longtime friend of Betts who told investigators he bought the body armor, a 100-round magazine and a key part of the gun Betts used in the attack was in court Thursday after a judge balked at releasing him from jail.

Authorities have said there’s no indication Kollie knew Betts was planning the mass shooting. But Kollie is charged with lying on a federal firearms form while buying a pistol not used in the shooting.

Prosecutors said Kollie first spoke with investigators just hours after the shooting.

Kollie’s attorney wants him released on house arrest.

A judge has been reviewing where Kollie would stay under house arrest with electronic monitoring and other conditions.

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