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How Spiral Into Depression Brought Tragedy to Family Violence: Fear that his mental illness was hereditary led man to kill his two young sons, police and relatives say.
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Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext) - Los Angeles, Calif.
Author: GREG KRIKORIAN
Date: Aug 28, 1995
Start Page: 1
Section: PART-A; Metro Desk
Text Word Count: 1144
Abstract (Document Summary)
It started at work, where the 34-year-old crane mechanic from Long Beach felt harassed and unsure of himself. The depression grew to the point where Blahnik turned to psychologists, psychiatrists and Prozac. And when he couldn't shake his despair, he began reading medical books for answers.
Now, it seems, the only thing Blahnik's search did was drive him deeper into darkness. For at some awful point, police and family now say, Blahnik concluded that his depression was hereditary and he could not bear the idea that he had passed it on to his sons. So on a sunny Sunday afternoon two weeks ago, Blahnik left a family gathering at his parents' house in San Pedro and took his two oldest boys, Ryan, 6, and Michael, 4, to a rocky beach in San Pedro.
As authorities wait for Blahnik to fully recover from a suicide attempt so he can stand trial on charges of murder that could lead to the death penalty, Los Angeles police and Blahnik's father offered the first glimpse last week into what might have motivated the once-cheery family man to allegedly kill the boys he adored before shooting himself in the head.