Belmont University student Jillian Ludwig was walking on a track in a local park when she was shot and critically wounded.

The Nashville district attorney called on Wednesday for the Tennessee legislature to make it easier to commit someone to a mental institution after a man who was previously released for incompetence to stand trial was accused of shooting an 18-year-old college student in the head.

Belmont University student Jillian Ludwig, of New Jersey, was walking on a track in a local park when she was shot and critically wounded at about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Metro Nashville Police. They arrested Shaquille Taylor, 29, after surveillance video and witness statements pointed to him as the shooter.

“Taylor was shooting at a car when a bullet hit Ludwig in the head as she walked on a track in a park across the street,” police said on social media when announcing the arrest Wednesday.

    • Blackbeard@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yes. If that’s what you call a care facility.

      I don’t call prison a care facility.

      In any case, he clearly shouldn’t be out in society. If he’s not responsible for his own actions, he should be in a place where other people are responsible.

      Not unsupervised, no. He should be granted access to shelter and provided treatment. He should have a permanent legal guardian. If he cannot afford one, or one does not volunteer, one should be appointed by the state. Our taxes should pay for a competent, trained, and well-staffed social services program that can meet demand and ensure his safety and the safety of others around him. He should be barred from owning or possessing a weapon. It’s amazing how many valid alternatives you can come up with when you go one step further than “hE sHoUlDn’T bE lEt OuT1!!!”

      How can you actually advocate for a violent, mentally deficient man to be out and about, with access to guns? Clearly you don’t give a shit about his young victim and her family, or the kids and mother he terrorized previously.

      I didn’t say anything of the sort, jackass. Shove your knee-jerk righteous indignation where the sun don’t shine, broseph.

      When you’re threatening my family do you think I give a flying fuck about my attackers mental well being? It’s not my problem, it’s not my concern.

      So long as you understand that you’re advocating that we indefinitely imprison the mentally ill, I don’t give a shit what you think, say, or do.