News>> Possible Dxm Related Assults

**PeoplesMind** · 09-25-2003, 10:52 PM

An Elgin man charged with stabbing two people in random attacks that rattled northwest suburban residents three years ago didn't seem impaired or insane when he approached a parked car and immediately attacked the driver with a steak knife, a witness testified Tuesday.

"He looked like a normal person," said Martha Avalos, describing the man who attacked her friend, Jorge Amaro, on Sept. 1, 2000, as Amaro stood near his car in the Tyler Creek Forest Preserve near Elgin. "He wasn't laughing or giggling."

Attorneys for Edward Edwardsen, now 20, aren't disputing that he carried out the stabbings. But they are contending that Edwardsen, then a 17-year-old senior at Jacobs High School in Algonquin, was insane and intoxicated on cough syrup when the assaults occurred near Elgin during the 2000 Labor Day weekend. His trial opened Tuesday in Kane County Circuit Court with eyewitness accounts of the two attacks

Much of the focus of the trial is expected to be on Edwardsen's mental state. Following his arrest, he spent nearly a year in the Elgin Mental Health Center after being found mentally unfit to stand trial. After Edwardsen was treated at that facility, he was found competent.

Defense attorney David Camic said mental health experts found at that time Edwardsen was suffering from hallucinations and hearing voices.

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[Editor's Note : I e-mailed the author of this article to inquire about what type of cough syrup [codine based, DXM based, perhaps diphenhydramine/dramamine], and he replied in brielf by saying 'Robitussin.' I have been unable to verfiy any more information.

cindowsxp · 09-26-2003, 10:38 AM

That is messed up man. Where do you dig up all these news articles that are so old?

:thumbsup:

09-26-2003, 03:11 PM

That killer is a fucking idiot. DXM makes me more peaceful, not crazy

**PeoplesMind** · 09-26-2003, 04:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by cindowsxp@Sep 26 2003, 08:38 AM
That is messed up man. Where do you dig up all these news articles that are so old?

:thumbsup:

Most the news we post is current.. like this article which was punlished in the September 24, 2003 Chicago Sun-Times.

peace,
Nitin

**SkimmerX** · 09-27-2003, 04:23 AM

I dont think being high on cough syrup should get him a break, he still did it and he choose to drink the stuff. Now if a doc perscribed him a drug and he flipped on it that would be different.