The suspect in the Seal Beach salon shooting rampage, Scott Evans Dekraai, 42, suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder as the result of a tugboat accident in 2007, according to court records.
His doctor, Ronald T. Silverstein of Long Beach, made the diagnosis in court documents dated Sept. 30, 2008, that were contained in Dekraai's divorce and custody proceedings.
The letter also stated that repeated phone calls from Dekraai's ex-wife Michelle Fournier -– the alleged target of Wednesday's shooting -– were "extremely stressful" and "not healthy" for Dekraai.
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As a result of that letter, the court limited contact between the couple to only one telephone call a week, initiated by Fournier.
The tugboat accident occurred in February 2007. A deckhand, 26-year-old Piper Cameron, was killed when she was crushed by a rope attached from the tug to the barge. Dekraai witnessed the accident and suffered a broken leg.
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