Meanwhile, the fall of state-run mental hospitals in the 1970's and 1980's, as the treatment for the mentally ill was de-institutionalized, left families with the primary burden of caring for the mentally ill. ... The law required that outpatients participate in mental treatment if ordered to by a court. 5) Others include, De-Kieu Duy, a woman off her medication and with a history of mental illness entered an office complex and shot to death an AT&T employee, and a man who stabbed to death his pregnant fiancé at their home in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. ...

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