Escaped psychiatric patient had planned bombing
A patient accused of torturing a woman to death before escaping from a troubled Washington state psychiatric hospital earlier this year also had a fascination with the Islamic State group and planned to blow up a state building, newly released documents revealed.
Detectives
who investigated Anthony Garver's escape from Western State Hospital
south of Seattle also found that he had threatened to kill a federal
judge and previously was caught with bomb-making materials.
Despite
an extensive criminal history and a pattern of evading authorities,
Garver lived in a ground-floor room, where he spent five months
loosening his window frame before escaping through it April 6 with
another violent patient.
It
took almost two hours for hospital officials to report the escape to
Lakewood police — a delay that concerned officers and detectives working
the case, according to police reports acquired by The Associated Press.
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