The unassuming Loughner started forcing
himself to stay awake in an effort to experience
"lucid dreaming," a trance-like state in which a
person goes directly from waking to dreaming
with no lapse in consciousness.
A timeline of Loughner's behavior the night
before the shooting -- when he crisscrossed
Tucson's northwest side, stopping at two Wal-
Marts, a Walgreens pharmacy and three
convenience stores between midnight and
sunrise -- is typical of the way Gutierrez
remembers him.
"He got really into depriving himself of sleep ... It
had to be natural. He explained this. If you use an
amphetamine or something like that, as soon as
it's completely out of your system, you can
crash, and you're also not getting the true lucid
dreaming state, because you're under the
influence of a chemical or substance," he said.
Loughner is alleged to have been involved later in
a series disruptions at Pima Community College
between February and September 2010 that led
school administrators to bar him from campus
until he could be examined and cleared to return
by a psychiatric professional.
According to school officials, he chose instead to
withdraw from college.
His friends knew he was having some kind of
trouble, but they assumed he was going through
a hard time at home and didn't want to talk about
it, so they gave him what support they could,
Gutierrez said.
"We'd just be here to hang out with him when he
wanted to. You know, you really can't offer
much, if you're not a professional or anything like
that. There's not a lot you can offer as a friend
besides, 'Yo, here's a place you can come chill
and hang out, and no one's going to bother you.'
It got to the point where he didn't even want
that," he said.
In a widely distributed YouTube video narrated
by Loughner, he is heard rambling about the
"genocide college" that was controlling grammar
and would leave him homeless.
Such talk became typical for Loughner, and
friends would sometimes challenge him when he
spoke that way.
"He kind of got tired of us, like, checking him on
things he was trying to say and being weird and
stuff. I think he just got tired of hearing it from
us, and he just cut us off," Gutierrez said.
When Gutierrez last had contact with him,
Loughner still appeared clean-cut, well-groomed
and dressed in Eddie Bauer. Then in July,
Gutierrez saw him in a grocery store parking lot.
He was wearing camouflage pants and combat
boots and his head was shaved.
"Jared was a good kid who was sick, and he just
went crazy. That's what happened, and if there's
going to be any fingers pointed anywhere, it's
that someone didn't haul his ass in and get him
evaluated. Whether that responsibility lies on the
parents, the school on the state, whatever it may
be, it didn't happen," he said.
Source: Http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70N6U520110124?pageNumber=2
himself to stay awake in an effort to experience
"lucid dreaming," a trance-like state in which a
person goes directly from waking to dreaming
with no lapse in consciousness.
A timeline of Loughner's behavior the night
before the shooting -- when he crisscrossed
Tucson's northwest side, stopping at two Wal-
Marts, a Walgreens pharmacy and three
convenience stores between midnight and
sunrise -- is typical of the way Gutierrez
remembers him.
"He got really into depriving himself of sleep ... It
had to be natural. He explained this. If you use an
amphetamine or something like that, as soon as
it's completely out of your system, you can
crash, and you're also not getting the true lucid
dreaming state, because you're under the
influence of a chemical or substance," he said.
Loughner is alleged to have been involved later in
a series disruptions at Pima Community College
between February and September 2010 that led
school administrators to bar him from campus
until he could be examined and cleared to return
by a psychiatric professional.
According to school officials, he chose instead to
withdraw from college.
His friends knew he was having some kind of
trouble, but they assumed he was going through
a hard time at home and didn't want to talk about
it, so they gave him what support they could,
Gutierrez said.
"We'd just be here to hang out with him when he
wanted to. You know, you really can't offer
much, if you're not a professional or anything like
that. There's not a lot you can offer as a friend
besides, 'Yo, here's a place you can come chill
and hang out, and no one's going to bother you.'
It got to the point where he didn't even want
that," he said.
In a widely distributed YouTube video narrated
by Loughner, he is heard rambling about the
"genocide college" that was controlling grammar
and would leave him homeless.
Such talk became typical for Loughner, and
friends would sometimes challenge him when he
spoke that way.
"He kind of got tired of us, like, checking him on
things he was trying to say and being weird and
stuff. I think he just got tired of hearing it from
us, and he just cut us off," Gutierrez said.
When Gutierrez last had contact with him,
Loughner still appeared clean-cut, well-groomed
and dressed in Eddie Bauer. Then in July,
Gutierrez saw him in a grocery store parking lot.
He was wearing camouflage pants and combat
boots and his head was shaved.
"Jared was a good kid who was sick, and he just
went crazy. That's what happened, and if there's
going to be any fingers pointed anywhere, it's
that someone didn't haul his ass in and get him
evaluated. Whether that responsibility lies on the
parents, the school on the state, whatever it may
be, it didn't happen," he said.
Source: Http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70N6U520110124?pageNumber=2
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