Airport Security's role in the shooting of BiPolar man??-

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This article in the Toronto Star, gives abit more insight into the incident that occurred in Miami- But also raises the troubling question of why a man who clearly appeared agitated was allowed on the flight to begin with-
Perhaps Airport security, as well as those who greet passengers played a pivotal role in the tragedy that unfolded and ended what one might call "The Trip from and to Hell"-

It also may offer a possible explanation as to why the man was 'off his meds' and why his wife felt compelled to get him home ASAP.


...snip.... The couple had been returning from a stressful vacation, relatives said. Alpizar's wife, Anne Buechner, had been robbed in Peru, losing her wallet, passport, laptop computer and cell phone, according to her sister-in-law, Kelley Buechner of Milwaukee.

"That really upset Rigo," Kelley Buechner said in an interview at her home, using the family's nickname for Alpizar, a Costa Rican native who became an American citizen a few years ago.

Chief Willie Marshall, who leads the Miami-Dade criminal investigations unit, said homicide detectives had interviewed Anne and that she had told them her husband had been diagnosed as bipolar roughly a decade ago.

She provided us "insight about what was going on with her husband," he said. "She told us he had not taken his medication recently."

Kelley Buechner said she had never heard that her brother-in-law was bipolar, only that he had had "a chemical imbalance" for which he took vitamins. She said she had never known Alpizar to stop taking his medication before and wondered whether it had been stolen along with other items in Peru.
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