Mental illness plagued hospital shooter: Police say man believed doctor had put tracking chip in his body
* By Scott Barker
* Posted April 20, 2010 at 11:14 p.m.
Abdo Ibssa believed a doctor had implanted a tracking chip in his body and was beset with legal and financial woes when police say he killed a woman, wounded two others and then killed himself Monday at Parkwest Medical Center.
Ibssa, who would have turned 39 Tuesday, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Ethiopia, used a stolen .357-caliber magnum pistol to shoot the women and then himself about 4:34 p.m. Monday, Knoxville Police Chief Sterling P. Owen IV said Tuesday.
Ibssa was suffering psychological problems and had been committed by his family to a mental health facility in February, Owen said. Police have yet to determine what facility treated him or when he was released.
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Police have determined there was no connection between Ibssa, who operated Al's Market and Deli at the corner of University and 5th avenues, and his victims.
"They were clearly just in the wrong place at the wrong time," Owen said.
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