Reports obtained by The Associated Press show a gunman who killed seven people last month in West Texas was found to have 'suicidal tendencies' by hospital staff after a 2001 arrest.
But reports from the McLennan County Sheriff’s Office obtained through a public records request portray a young man who was deeply troubled 18 years before authorities say he opened fire in a rolling rampage that spanned 10 miles .
In July 2001, the mother of the family told a deputy that Ator threatened to kill her son. The next month, Ator tried to break into the daughter’s bedroom around 3:30 a.m., removing a window screen “in an attempt to contact her,” according to the reports. The daughter told Detective Mylie Hudson that she woke up and then saw Ator driving away in his father’s vehicle.The next day, officers found Ator locked inside a bedroom at a Waco apartment where his friends lived.
Officials at Ascension Providence hospital in Waco, where Ator was treated, did not respond to questions sent by the AP on Tuesday.
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