A sad incident occurred at the Home Depot in Fontana, California (fifty miles east of Los Angeles) on February 27. After running in and out of traffic, apparently trying to be hit, Marcus Allen Camacho ran into the store and grabbed a jab saw. Camacho ignored police orders to drop the weapon, shook off a taser hit, and when he started running toward police while brandishing the saw, he was shot and killed by officers. Camacho, who according to his widow suffered from mental health issues, left her and four children behind.
One would think that any reporting on this story aside from bare-boned facts would take time to pursue the mental health angle. Did Camacho seek help for his problems? If so, did he receive any? Were there drugs involved? His wife’s statement on a GoFundMe page seeking donations to pay for funeral expenses makes no mention of any.
He was the victim of battling…
