Pentagon shooter’s spiral from early promise to madness
gangstalking | March 7, 2010
Pentagon shooter’s spiral from early promise to madness
By Ian Shapira
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 7, 2010
But in the early 2000s, Patrick’s curiosity and skepticism changed to an off-putting perspective laden with conspiracy theories. He smoked marijuana frequently. One time, Monaco said, Patrick asked him for his cellphone. Monaco handed it over, and Patrick removed the battery. “He said, ‘That’s how they can listen to us,’ ” Monaco said.
The Bedells pleaded with him to seek medical help, but he refused. “I would have conversations with him, trying to convince him to stop smoking marijuana, that it was making his thinking more disordered, but he was not receptive to that,” Jeffrey said.
At one point, Patrick brought Monaco to a neighborhood and paced back and forth in front of a home. “He said, ‘Those people spy on me at night.’ ” The family contacted local authorities, but there was nothing it could do unless Patrick consented.






