A gunman killed in a shootout with police last week had attempted
suicide several times, been hospitalized at Eastern State Hospital and
was described as “volatile and explosive” in a state psychiatrist’s
report two years ago.
Ethan A. Corporon saw drug-induced images of aliens and spaceships, dreamed of killing himself with a shotgun and described intense mood swings that experts said made him dangerous and likely to commit crimes, according to a June 2008 report by Dr. William Grant, forensic psychiatrist at Eastern State Hospital.
In a 2005 interview with another doctor, Corporon said “what do I have to do to get some attention, kill someone?” and said he had access to a shotgun.
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