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Lähettäjä: Soijuv Lähetetty: 5.2.2006 14:26

Borreliabakteeri saattaa aiheuttaa erilaisia psyykkisiä ongelmia esim. skitsofreniaa, muistihäiriöitä, äkillisiä vihanpurkauksia jne. Seuraavassa lehtijutussa kerrotaan myöhäisvaiheen borrelioosia sairastavasta miehestä, joka pidätettiin väkivaltaisen käytöksen ja ammuskelun vuoksi. Miehellä oli lisäksi useita aseita kotona. Hän on joutunut aiemminkin tekemisiin poliisin kanssa väkivaltaisen käyttäytymisen vuoksi.


Tusten resident surrenders after shooting at police

By LISA CUTRONI

TUSTEN, NY?What started as a 911 domestic violence call escalated to a 12-hour showdown between William Morris and New York State Police and the Sullivan County Sheriffs? department.

Sheriffs? Deputies Cyrus Barnes and Rich Morgan arrived first at the scene around 12:43 a.m., after a call went into to 911 of domestic violence. Morris shot at Barnes?s cruiser twice, before barricading himself into the house. Barnes was uninjured.

Twelve-hours later, Morris surrendered to the police, after oral threats were made to the police. Morris was alone in the home.

After his surrender, he was taken to the Sheriff?s station in Monticello for interrogation, while the state police ID Unit out of Middletown was en route to process the crime scene.

The area was evacuated of residents and the Tusten Volunteer Ambulance team was on the scene all morning.

This was not the first encounter Morris has had with law enforcement.

On May 11, 2005 Morris? wife, Jane, called 911 after finding him in their rear bedroom with a rifle. They talked Morris into surrendering and he was charged with a misdemeanor menacing. In July 2005, another call brought police to the scene to resolve a domestic dispute.

Jane and William (Chris) Morris moved to Narrowsburg from Titusville, NJ in May 2004, when they opened the Riverlights Bed and Breakfast and Yoga Center. Morris was a former associate professor of finance and computer science at City University of New York. William Morris is reportedly suffering from either an advanced stage of Lyme Disease or some other form of mental illness.

Sheriff Mike Schiff said it was still unclear what originally set Morris off in the early morning hours, or what negotiators with the State Police Mobile Response Team (MRT) said to him to draw him from the building, but was able to say that there were several firearms in the residence.

Jane Morris escaped the premises during the early morning and was taken to the state police barracks in Tusten.

For more pictures, the continuing story and an interview with Jane Morris, pick up the February 9 edition of The River Reporter.