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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/pa...icer-involved-family-20130313,0,5613981.story
It's the story of a bright young man who never went wrong — until that sudden, final night of his life.
Now, friends and family desperate for an explanation of the fatal police shooting of Adam Christian Donohue are hearing more about what path Donohue's life took in the several hours before his fatal encounter with Boca Raton police Friday night.
The 20-year-old Florida Atlantic University student – by all accounts a mild-mannered, intelligent young man – is believed to have suffered a so-called bad trip after experimenting with LSD on Friday night, according to friends and family.
Donohue was shot dead by Boca Raton police officers at about 8:45 p.m. at Spanish River Boulevard and Military Trail after he stole a taxi, police said.
But what caused Donohue, who has no criminal history or arrests, to get involved in what Boca police said was a violent confrontation?
In an interview Wednesday, Adam's mother and stepfather — who have many questions they want answered, including why it took law enforcement three days to notify them of their son's death — said they had also heard Donohue had tried LSD that night. They said there was no way to confirm it in the absence of toxicology results.
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A medical expert said it was possible for LSD to cause any law-abiding, non-aggressive person to descend into a potentially violent episode.
"We see horrible acute side effects: paranoid delusions of persecution, out-of-character behavior, basically superhuman strength where they believe they're invincible," said Dr. Nabil El Sanadi, chief of emergency medicine at Broward Health.
El Sanadi said the "tragedy" of drugs like LSD, bath salts and other synthetic narcotics is that users have no idea what variation of chemical ingredients make up the drug, and that these chemical ingredients can lead to people taking on unusual and aggressive personas.
"You could say something like, 'Hi how are you?' and they could actually attack you because they think you're saying something different, or they perceive you as an aggressor," El Sanadi said.
full article here: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/pa...icer-involved-family-20130313,0,5613981.story
It's the story of a bright young man who never went wrong — until that sudden, final night of his life.
Now, friends and family desperate for an explanation of the fatal police shooting of Adam Christian Donohue are hearing more about what path Donohue's life took in the several hours before his fatal encounter with Boca Raton police Friday night.
The 20-year-old Florida Atlantic University student – by all accounts a mild-mannered, intelligent young man – is believed to have suffered a so-called bad trip after experimenting with LSD on Friday night, according to friends and family.
Donohue was shot dead by Boca Raton police officers at about 8:45 p.m. at Spanish River Boulevard and Military Trail after he stole a taxi, police said.
But what caused Donohue, who has no criminal history or arrests, to get involved in what Boca police said was a violent confrontation?
In an interview Wednesday, Adam's mother and stepfather — who have many questions they want answered, including why it took law enforcement three days to notify them of their son's death — said they had also heard Donohue had tried LSD that night. They said there was no way to confirm it in the absence of toxicology results.
[...]
A medical expert said it was possible for LSD to cause any law-abiding, non-aggressive person to descend into a potentially violent episode.
"We see horrible acute side effects: paranoid delusions of persecution, out-of-character behavior, basically superhuman strength where they believe they're invincible," said Dr. Nabil El Sanadi, chief of emergency medicine at Broward Health.
El Sanadi said the "tragedy" of drugs like LSD, bath salts and other synthetic narcotics is that users have no idea what variation of chemical ingredients make up the drug, and that these chemical ingredients can lead to people taking on unusual and aggressive personas.
"You could say something like, 'Hi how are you?' and they could actually attack you because they think you're saying something different, or they perceive you as an aggressor," El Sanadi said.
full article here: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/pa...icer-involved-family-20130313,0,5613981.story
