Shoot-Out with Police Prozac 14/05/1991 Florida Man Has Shoot-Out, Then Commits Suicide Shoot-Out with Police Prozac 1991-05-14 Florida Man Has Shoot-Out, Then Commits Suicide http://web.archive.org/web/20130202043904/http://ssristories.com/show.php?item=1432 Summary:

Paragraph six reads:  "She said her ex-husband had retired for medical reasons and that he sounded ""very, very depressed'' when she talked to him on the phone. Asked why he would have been carrying guns, she replied, 'It's Prozac, the medication.'"

First paragraph reads:  "The wife of a successful Pittsburgh real estate developer who killed himself after a shootout with police in Butler County blamed an anti-depressant medication for the violent encounter."

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Wife blames Prozac for man's shootout with police, suicide
The Tampa Tribune
May 14, 1991
Estimated printed pages: 1
 

The wife of a successful Pittsburgh real estate developer who killed himself after a shootout with police in Butler County blamed an anti-depressant medication for the violent encounter.

An autopsy showed Charles Goodwin, 60, died Saturday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after a high-speed chase and shootout with police near Butler, authorities said.

Police said they found several weapons in his car.

The retired real estate executive had recently moved from Mars, Pa., to Naples, Fla. The shootout occurred when state police tried to stop his car on Route 8.

Goodwin's ex-wife, Elizabeth Goodwin of Fox Chapel, said her former spouse had driven to Butler County from Florida on personal business.

She said her ex-husband had retired for medical reasons and that he sounded ""very, very depressed'' when she talked to him on the phone. Asked why he would have been carrying guns, she replied, ""It's Prozac, the medication.''

She said Goodwin had recently stopped taking the prescription drug, which some medical studies have suggested may induce violent behavior in certain individuals.

Goodwin had developed a number of buildings beginning in the 1950s.
Edition:  METROPOLITAN
Section:  FLORIDA/METRO
Page:  4
Index Terms: POLICE CONFRONTATION; PENNSYLVANIA USA; DRUG; BUTLER COUNTY; CHARLES
Record Number:  182

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