It's really obvious in this one:
Steven Allen Abrams, 39
Southcoast Early Childhood Learning Center, Costa Mesa, California.
On 5-3-99 He plowed his Cadillac into a crowd of children outside a day care center, killing two toddlers and injuring five other people. He conceived the attack years in advance, hoping that killing "innocent" children would halt the voices he claims the government was beaming into his brain, according to records unsealed Friday.
--The condition began to manifest itself in 1993, the lawyer said. Abrams began to believe that "somebody had brain wave technology that could control somebody's thoughts and behavior,"
"To his growing horror, he came to know there was a conspiracy against him," (DefenseAttorney)Gumlia said
He believed government agencies had devised machines ..that "may even insert thoughts of killing"
In interviews with psychiatrists appointed by the court, Steven Allen Abrams repeatedly expresses disbelief at his own actions while justifying them as the only way to stop the "brain waves" that flooded his mind. "I still don't believe I did it, that I could possibly do what I did," Abrams said. "I'm not a killer. . . . I love kids."
Psychiatric records portray Abrams as a man haunted by delusions that the CIA or some other government agency("an unknown government agency") wanted him to become a killer. For several years, he drove by the Costa Mesa day-care center, believing that if he killed the children, the government would stop torturing his mind.
He eventually spent several months in jail and psychiatric hospitals. Abrams began looking for new meaning in coincidences and became convinced people were following him, according to the records.
In his interview with psychiatrist Sheffner, Abrams described dressing in military fatigues during psychotic episodes. The government was trying to reach him through television, radio, books and magazines, he said.
Their message: Kill.
--"They're going to kill me, the brain wave people. They're assassins," Abrams said, according to the reports. "No matter what happens at the trial, I'll have to deal with them in the end."
Steven Allen Abrams, 39
Southcoast Early Childhood Learning Center, Costa Mesa, California.
On 5-3-99 He plowed his Cadillac into a crowd of children outside a day care center, killing two toddlers and injuring five other people. He conceived the attack years in advance, hoping that killing "innocent" children would halt the voices he claims the government was beaming into his brain, according to records unsealed Friday.
--The condition began to manifest itself in 1993, the lawyer said. Abrams began to believe that "somebody had brain wave technology that could control somebody's thoughts and behavior,"
"To his growing horror, he came to know there was a conspiracy against him," (DefenseAttorney)Gumlia said
He believed government agencies had devised machines ..that "may even insert thoughts of killing"
In interviews with psychiatrists appointed by the court, Steven Allen Abrams repeatedly expresses disbelief at his own actions while justifying them as the only way to stop the "brain waves" that flooded his mind. "I still don't believe I did it, that I could possibly do what I did," Abrams said. "I'm not a killer. . . . I love kids."
Psychiatric records portray Abrams as a man haunted by delusions that the CIA or some other government agency("an unknown government agency") wanted him to become a killer. For several years, he drove by the Costa Mesa day-care center, believing that if he killed the children, the government would stop torturing his mind.
He eventually spent several months in jail and psychiatric hospitals. Abrams began looking for new meaning in coincidences and became convinced people were following him, according to the records.
In his interview with psychiatrist Sheffner, Abrams described dressing in military fatigues during psychotic episodes. The government was trying to reach him through television, radio, books and magazines, he said.
Their message: Kill.
--"They're going to kill me, the brain wave people. They're assassins," Abrams said, according to the reports. "No matter what happens at the trial, I'll have to deal with them in the end."
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