Is it possible that people with schizophrenia can be triggered?
There was a ton of weapons in his room:
From the article:
“...Tewskbury PD posted a photo of the items found in the hotel room. These included:
- an AR-15 with a grenade launcher and silencer
- an AK-47
- a .22-caliber rifle with a silencer
- 2 x 308-caliber rifles with 3 x loaded large capacity magazines,
- a 9-millimeter gun with 2 x large capacity magazines
- a .45-caliber gun with 2 x speed loaders
- a shotgun
- numerous rounds of ammunition
- multiple smoke grenades.
Bradley had a valid gun license for Texas, but not Massachusetts, so he and his girlfriend Jennings were charged anyway, with multiple counts of weapons possessions. ...”
Yes.
It takes continued personal contact from a handler to get specific results at a desired time and place. It is not a terribly reliable process - and it leaves visible tracks.
A "low-touch" option is to saturate an environment with suggestive messages and see who in the audience responds to them. After that, it only takes a little encouragement to get things moving along. This process can produce some astonishingly creative improvisations from the volunteers which would appear to defy the laws of probability.
The "low-touch" option is also quite unreliable, but it does not leave obvious provable tracks back to the sponsors.
The guy from Tewksbury, who certainly appears to be suffering from delusions, apparently went from his motel in Tewksbury to Cambridge on one or two days. He parked close to the offices of a DOD entity that is involved with special research projects.