An employee in my husband's office was one of the people on the train...no one has heard from her directly, but they understand that she was one of the many who were hospitalized.
It is a very sad situation. I don't know that I can pass judgement on this person. I too understand what mental issues can do to a person and that regardless of the horrific outcome the person is truely just not equipped mentally to think their actions thru and what the consequneces could be.
That being said, I don't think a defense will have much luck here, because his actions in trying to get the SUV off the tracks will show that he had a minimal mental capacity to know at some point in all of this, that what he was doing was wrong.
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