Are the people in Lewiston still locked down?

[Irish_Dem]

13. About one in five of all serial killers were psychotic at the time of their crimes.

So they could plan ahead and elude the police.

A person can be psychotic but legally sane.
Knows right from wrong. And understands the nature of his act.
A person can be very seriously disturbed but not meet the definition of legal insanity.

Here in the Lewiston case, we have a paranoid schizophrenic, with active auditory
hallucinations, perhaps command hallucinations telling him to kill people.
Triggered by a rejection from his girlfriend. So he's very angry and wants revenge.
With extensive military and weapon training.

This is a very dangerous guy. I am sure the FBI has discussed this with LE.

Obviously very seriously disturbed but able to plan the mass shooting and able
to make an adequate escape plan. In large part this is probably a function of his
previous status as highly trained military personnel.

So you can see that even in his disturbance he is able to access that training in his history.
So even in his acute psychotic state he is able to fall back on his over learned behavior.

Of course we don't really know until the psychologists go in and interview him, talk to him and
find out exactly what his mental status is.

That is if he emerges alive. He is quite dangerous and law enforcement needs to be very careful.

Frankly I don't know if he will to be taken alive. If he is taken alive he's very very lucky.

We have a psychotic perpetrator, who probably does not want to be taken alive.
And we have swat teams who understand the shooter is quite dangerous and they don't
want to get killed so their adrenaline is flowing. So you can see how this might end.