A neurologist says a gunman who massacred 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue has schizophrenia and epilepsy.
has a “very serious mental health history" from childhood and a “markedly abnormal” brain, a defense expert testified Wednesday in the penalty phase of the killer's trial., while federal prosecutors are seeking a death sentence for the 50-year-old truck driver from suburban Baldwin, who was convicted this month in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history.
“I think he was living on the margins" at the time of the attack, said Nadkarni, a New Jersey-based neurologist. “He was isolated.” Bowers had a “flat, rigid affect" when he was examined by Nadkarni, the neurologist told jurors. He also had a delusion that ink was leaching from his prison uniform into his body and making his prison wristband change color, Nadkarni said.ranted incessantly on social media
Under cross examination, Nadkarni said Bowers was not “incapable” of planning the attack, but said “his reasons for planning it out are unreliable in his brain.”
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