Barry shot and killed 66-year-old Deborah Danner inside the bedroom of her Bronx apartment in October of 2016. Danner suffered from schizophrenia, and her sister called police to the apartment after the two had an argument. When officers arrived, Danner refused to drop a pair of scissors.
NYPD Sergeant who shot mentally ill woman found not guilty. BRONX, New York (WABC) -- A judge in the Bronx has found the NYPD Sergeant who shot and killed a bat-wielding mentally ill woman in the Bronx not guilty. Judge Robert Neary's verdict was announced just after 9:30 a.m. Thursday. Sgt.
The judge looked at the preponderance of all the evidence and concluded that the actions of the Sergeant were appropriate and not criminal. There is no victory here today, only relief that justice has been served and a good man who was doing a difficult and dangerous job has been exonerated.".
The New York Times also reported that on November 2, 2016, shortly after Danner was killed, another emotionally disturbed Bronx resident—a man—was killed by police, this time with an electric stun gun. Whatever the cause or effects, Deborah Danner was far from alone in her suffering.
According to her essay, Deborah Danner began exhibiting symptoms of schizophrenia around the age of 30 , though her uncle, Wallace Cooke Jr., a former police officer, told reporters that Danner started showing signs while attending City College and Lehman College in New York City.
They went for a cup of coffee afterward; Danner told Tahta that she was experiencing difficulties with her bank account, and Tahta offered to help her out. She called him a month or so later to thank him, and Tahta says he had no sense that Danner was mentally ill.
Dudek says many sufferers like Danner often fall through the cracks because the system provides for short-term solutions, but doesn’t allow for them to be monitored over months or years. “There’s a way to do this but you’ve got to put some of the resources into working with people on a more regular basis,” Dudek said.
This was her illness creeping in, her schizophrenia manifesting itself. This, she said, was what led her to get so dirty that she was forced to defecate on the street since no shopkeeper or restaurant owner would allow her to use their restroom; this was what led her to wander the streets of New York City late at night, carrying a knife and searching for a public place in which to kill herself. This was what led her to call one of the few people she trusted and ask them to help pay for her to change the locks of her apartment again and again.
And yet, what is perhaps most remarkable about Danner’s death is that she foreshadowed it herself. In an eloquent six-page essay written in 2012, titled “Living With Schizophrenia,” Danner alluded to the death of another mentally ill woman, Eleanor Bumpurs, who was killed by police in the Bronx in 1984.
According to the National Alliance of Mental Illness, roughly 1.1% of the nation’s adults—or about 2.5 million people—suffer from schizophrenia; 2.6% from bipolar disorder; 6.9%—or 16 million—had at least one major depressive episode in the past year; and 18.5%—or 43.8 million adults—experience mental illness in a given year.
Courtesy of the family. On the night she was killed in her Bronx apartment by a police officer’s bullet, Deborah Danner was at war with the people who loved her the most. Sixty-six years old and struggling for more than three decades with schizophrenia, Danner was fighting with her family and trying to get her sister Jennifer removed as her ...
Danner didn’t see it that way. In a remarkable six-page essay called “Living With Schizophrenia” that she wrote back in 2012, Danner said she felt “disappointed” by her sister and other kin and accused them of buying into the “stigma” surrounding mental illness. Deborah Danner, 66, was shot and killed by a uniformed sergeant in her Bronx apartment.
She took art classes and her drawings were good enough to be displayed in the group’s gallery. She took part in various employment programs. She even taught an acting class that was popular with the other members of the community. “She was very active,” Dudek said. “She was somebody who contributed.
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But in Danner’s mind, her family had turned against her. And when her mother died and her sister applied to be her guardian, Danner said no and went looking for a lawyer. “Last year, that’s when I met her,” Hargreaves said. “She was very well and we had a really wonderful conversation that lasted a couple hours.
Meanwhile Danner, who Cooke said attended City College and Lehman College but did not graduate, tried to forge a life for herself. She never married or had children, but she apparently had hopes for a career. "She was always very bright. But her mind just crossed the line.”.
From NBC New York: Attorney General Won't Investigate Bronx Woman's Shooting. Both New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O’Neill have condemned the fatal shooting and accused the officer of failing to follow NYPD protocol for dealing with an emotionally disturbed person. “This was a tragedy,” said Charles Hargreaves, ...