Report: Gunman in hostage standoff at La. bank was treated weeks earlier for mental illness
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A police report says the gunman who killed two hostages during a standoff at a rural Louisiana bank had been treated several weeks earlier for paranoid schizophrenia at a California hospital after returning to the United States from a trip to Yemen.
The report released Wednesday by Louisiana State Police says 20-year-old Fuaed Abdo Ahmed told hostage negotiators that a device he thought had been implanted in his head caused him to hear voices.
A relative told investigators that Ahmed had been trying to "cure himself" with yoga to avoid taking medication that doctors in California had prescribed.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The report says Ahmed shot and killed two employees of the Tensas State Bank in St. Joseph in August before he was gunned down by a SWAT team that stormed the building.