Air Rage Prozac 06/10/1996 North Carolina Man Assaults Passengers & Pulls a Knife on Airplane
 
 Summary:<br><br><div><font size="3">Last paragraph reads:&nbsp; &quot;<strong>Walters,<u> prescribed Prozac and Xana</u>x, had not eaten since lunch on Sept. 26 before heading to the airport for his flight to North Carolina to visit family, Dr. William D. Kenner said. &quot;<br /><br /></strong>_________________________________________________________________________________________________<br />USAir patron mixed medication, alcohol<br />Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC)<br />October 6, 1996<br />Author: Associated Press <br />Estimated printed pages: 2 <br /><img src="../images.newsbank.com/infoweb/agg/shim.gif" alt="[]" width="1" height="1" /> <br /><br />NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Mixing alcohol with prescribed medication led a North Carolina man to become unruly during a cross-country flight, a psychiatrist testified. <br /><br />Dr. William D. Kenner, testifying Friday on behalf of the defense, said Danny Walters was not a danger to the community, based on his interview earlier this week with the 25-year-old Clarkton, N.C., resident.<br /><br />Walters remains in Montgomery County Jail after U.S. Magistrate Julia Griffin continued his preliminary hearing until Monday in U.S. District Court.<br /><br />Authorities escorted a drunken Walters off USAir Flight 614 from Las Vegas to Charlotte on Sept. 27 after the plane made an unscheduled landing in Nashville. Crew members said Walter assaulted fellow passengers and, at one point, waved a folding knife at the pilot.<br /><br />Walters faces two <strong>felonies</strong>: interfering with a flight crew member and assaulting a passenger. Convictions on both counts could bring up to 20 years and six months in prison and $255,000 in fines.<br /><br />A pretrial report says Walters proved a danger to the community based on his previous record that included vehicular homicide and assault with a deadly weapon.<br /><br />Defense attorney Charles R. Ray countered with Kenner&#39;s testimony. The Nashville psychiatrist agreed with a March diagnosis that Walters suffers from post-traumatic stress and panic attacks. Kenner said the stress stemmed from a car accident Walters was involved in at age 18 that left another man dead.<br /><br />Walters, prescribed <strong>Prozac</strong> and Xanax, had not eaten since lunch on Sept. 26 before heading to the airport for his flight to North Carolina to visit family, Kenner said. <br />Edition:&nbsp; Final<br />Section:&nbsp; Durham<br />Page:&nbsp; B11<br />Index Terms: courts<br />Copyright, 1996, The Durham Herald Company<br />Record Number:&nbsp; 0337634685 <br /><br />OpenURL Article Bookmark (right click, and copy the link location):<br /><a href="http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&amp;rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:DHSB&amp;rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&amp;rft_dat=1002AFA923E80149&amp;svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated4&amp;req_dat=0FC00B934DD580D0">USAir patron mixed medication, alcohol<br /></a></font></div> 
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