When confronted with a crime of this magnitude on the very streets you sometimes walk, it’s not possible to get enough information to answer every ‘why.’ Here’s some of the most useful, latest coverage of last Monday’s murder, Michael LaRosa’s arrest, the sad death of Joseph LaMagno and the police report documenting the crime which we have posted in full here. Here’s what other news sources are saying:

• Seattle Times: Suspect in hatchet attack says he skipped meds, police say

Beginning in March 2009, LaRosa was enrolled in the mental-health court, a program designed to get mentally ill defendants treatment while their criminal case is working through the system.

 

But, according to one source with knowledge of his Seattle Municipal Court records, LaRosa was known to take marijuana, methamphetamine and Oxycodone instead of his prescribed medications.

• The Stranger: In Court Documents Related to the Capitol Hill Hatchet Murder Suspect, a Poem
• Seattle Times: Capitol Hill neighbors mourn their gentle Angel of the Alley

His parents are still reeling from the phone call from the medical examiner. “We just kept saying to him, ‘Are you sure, are you sure, are you sure,’ ” his mother said of that call Tuesday night.

They had tried calling LaMagno on Sunday, as they always did, and Monday too, and wondered why they had not reached their son for their weekly talk.

“How could somebody do this?” said his father, Joseph LaMagno. “He should have never been on the street,” he said of LaRosa. “Somebody messed up somewhere. You’ve got to feel sorry for someone that sick.”

• The SunBreak: Mental Illness Drove Capitol Hill’s Hatchet Killer
  

  It’s symptomatic of the funding crisis that Sound Mental Health, a non-profit that successfully deals with thousands of patients each year, is also being asked to manage the care of people whose mental illnesses drive them to threaten actual staff–or, in this case, someone who was prone to “fits of rage” and who had taken a knife to a former girlfriend’s couch. LaRosa had been booked into jail three times this year, but, unsurprisingly, the jail time had no curative effect on his schizophrenia.