Shooting suspect had history of mental illness

NewImageThis continues the history of one thing all these shooters have in common: anti-psychotic and antidepressant medications.

BALTIMORE – The suspect in a deadly shooting at a Florida video game tournament had previously been hospitalized for mental illness, according to court records in his home state of Maryland reviewed by the Associated Press.

Divorce filings from the parents of 24-year-old David Katz of Baltimore say that as a teenager he was twice hospitalized in psychiatric facilities and that he was prescribed anti-psychotic and antidepressant medications.