Ohmeed Popal's parents had apparently been very overprotective of him throughout his life, to protect him from America's "evil society." Popal got in a big argument with his parents starting over the weekend about wanting to go back to Afghanistan by himself to see his wife. He stormed out of the house and ran away to LA, but ended up having to call home a few days later and ask them to pick him up because he had no money.If you recall my comment from the other day, I noted the importance of those strange dreams. Is it possible that he went off his medications at some point, and contributed to this horrible series of hit and run attacks?
The arguments started up again after he got home, and escalated to the point that on Tuesday, he spent the entire morning arguing with them about it as he drove into San Jose from Fremont to drop his brother off at SJSU, and continuing as he went into Fremont around noon to apply for a temp job. At that point, Popal dropped off his mother and sister at the temp agency, and took off. You know how the rest goes.
Popal had a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia -- last spring, he was checked into Kaiser Fremont after repeated dreams of a devil dragging him into a graveyard and killing him. He was prescribed medications and shortly afterwards, agreed to his arranged marriage. In July, he told his family he'd stabbed a man to death in SF. The confession was false, but they checked him into Washington Hospital, where he was subsequently released as not posing a threat to society.
Other reports indicate that he had a fight with his mother and that even relatives didn't know of Popal's mental health problems. As the evidence keeps coming forward on Popal's mental illness and unstable grasp on reality, it will undermine the claims that this was a drive by jihadi in the mold of Mohammad Taheriazar and the focus will be placed on his diagnosis and ongoing treatment and medication.
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