Deputies’ shooter struggled with mental illness

Published November 27, 2012 11:27pm ET



FAIRHOPE, Ala. (AP) — The mother of an Alabama man accused of shooting two sheriff’s deputies wrote of his increasingly erratic and threatening behavior in three requests to have him placed in mental institutions against his will in recent years, according to court documents that have surfaced since the shooting that left one of the men dead.

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