The following are just some examples: 1) In April of 1999, a schizophrenic resident of Salt Lake City, who refused to take medication had walked up to strangers and shot them dead. ... The law required that outpatients participate in mental treatment if ordered to by a court. 5) Others include, De-Kieu Duy, a woman off her medication and with a history of mental illness entered an office complex and shot to death an AT&T employee, and a man who stabbed to death his pregnant fiancé at their home in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. ... The number of mentally ill who go untreated is rising acro...

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