TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) – The Latest on the stabbing attacks at a Massachusetts shopping mall and home that left two dead and saw the suspect fatally shot by an off-duty sheriff’s deputy (all times local):
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Family members of the man who killed two people during a rampage in Massachusetts say he was mentally ill and has just been released from a hospital psychiatric ward.
Arthur DaRosa was shot and killed by an off-duty sheriff’s deputy after fatally stabbing one person at the Silver City Galleria mall in Taunton on Tuesday, shortly after he stabbed an 80-year-old woman in her home.
Kerri Devries, DaRosa’s sister, tells the Boston Herald her brother has been battling depression for years. She says he has recently been suicidal, and the “devil was playing tricks on him.” She says he was admitted to the hospital Monday.