What an awful mess! It's hard to know just who to believe! I certainly hope Randy gets the help he needs.
What an awful mess! It's hard to know just who to believe! I certainly hope Randy gets the help he needs.
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It was directed to hospital workers, and it did happen in the past but still none the less very troubling about his mental status. The article mentions it and that's why he got a conservator.
Another article talks about it and specifically mentions the hospital workers.In July last year, Los Angeles Superior Court appointed Randy's friend James Newton as his temporary conservator after he 'threatened to shoot people' with an AK-47.
http://www.tmz.com/2016/03/07/eagles...randy-meisner/
I hope he somehow gets the help he needs and can deal with his wife's death. I also read about the heavy spurs causing the trigger to engage. Police have established that Randy was not in the room at the time of the accident, most likely substantiated by the CCTV they had in the house. I don't see how this has anything to do with the earlier incident for which the police were called, other than being a tragic coincidence. My heart goes out to Randy and to his wife's family.
Here's my line of thinking, and I admire Randy as one of my musical heroes but in talking with my folks about the news, we came to the conclusion:
Why was she needing to go get a rifle or get into the case or even pick it up? Either because she had bad motive or she was protecting herself, there had to be some impetus for her to go looking for that rifle. If she was just rummaging through the closet, fine, but if she was in any way looking for a rifle you have to take into consideration that 911 was called 90 minutes prior. If that hadn't happened, you could say it was just rummaging around. But the fact is, she wanted to get the rifle from the sounds of it.
Randy was cleared (which I'm very glad), mostly because of the CCTV and it was an accident, but she obviously went to get that rifle for SOME reason. That is what I'm getting at. Why did she have to go looking for it? It would seem like more of a coincidence if there wasn't a domestic disturbance call just 90 minutes earlier.
I personally think she was protecting herself.
So, spurs caused the loaded gun, in a case without the safety on, to go off just when it was aimed at her head. Wait. What??? The odds must be stupefying. I have a feeling that we may not have heard the end of this quite yet.
"The first thing that happens is you get some kind of label and you've gotta live up to it and then you just get caught in that. And, I forget what the second thing is." ~Joe Walsh