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I was 50 feet away from the guy he pointed has gone at me and I feared for my life

Welcome to season 4 episode 96 of Sword and Scale a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real

There's a saying that goes you cannot reason with unreasonable people and in today's story we'll explore just how true that is

We're going to talk about a well-organized group of people on the internet whose beliefs defy logic and reason and whose delusions can sometimes turn deadly

With approximately 42.5 million adults suffering from mental illness such as depression, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder

9.3 million of those experiencing severe mental illness that impedes their day-to-day lives

You'd think as a society we would be better able to recognize when someone is in crisis and know what to do

Too often however those suffering are alone left to rationalize their own deteriorating mental state

Today we examine one man's spiral into paranoia and his ultimate decision that killing would be the best way to bring attention to his cause

He was alone up front of a stroger and he looked like he had been pacing before and then he stopped and started walking

I went down the step I heard one gunshot I turned around and he was sprinting at the other guy and took two more shots

And that's when I turned in ramp. Myron May moved to Wewihichka, Florida in 1995

With a population of less than a thousand this was far removed from date, no, Hio where he was born

He lived with his grandmother. He made friends running track. He found family. His childhood friends, the tauntens, later took him in

Just weeks before he tries to take the lives of three people on Florida State's campus

Here is David Taunton from an interview with the Tallahassee Democrat

He, his natural father was a little crack cocaine and he moved here to deal with his grandma

It's cool, Keith when he was 13 years old and that's when he became affiliated with his old son, just back and forth from the boys

I kept up with mine. I was so proud of him. He graduated high in his class at that issue

I graduated high in his class. I think it was Texas Tech or Texas A&M Law School

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