
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 25, 1990                   TAG: 9004250613
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/4   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: ATLANTA                                LENGTH: Medium

MAN KILLS 1, WOUNDS 4 AT MALL

A smiling gunman who killed one person and wounded four at a suburban shopping mall had been released 36 hours earlier from a mental hospital where he had been listed as having homicidal tendencies, police say.

The man, wearing a business suit, fired into a lunch-hour crowd Tuesday before he calmly tossed the .38-caliber revolver into a trash can and surrendered, apparently at the urging of an elderly man, authorities said.

"You don't know what all these people have done to me," James Calvin Brady, 31, was said by authorities to have muttered as he was led away.

He was charged with murder and four counts of aggravated assault and jailed without bail. Two of the wounded were listed in critical condition.

During questioning, Brady talked of God and a "mechanical device" inside him that controls his actions, police said. "He's suffering from hallucinations. He was probably having one when he fired," Col. M.F. Ferguson said.

A document found in Brady's pocket said he was released Monday from Georgia Regional Hospital in Atlanta. He was admitted to the state hospital April 13, but the document did not say why he was released, Ferguson said.

The document "said he had homicidal and suicidal tendencies, and suffered from delusions," Ferguson said. Brady "can be hostile, threatening, and has a history of alcohol abuse," the colonel quoted it as saying.

Marchant Roach, spokesman for the state Department of Human Resources, which runs the state hospitals, said the department would not comment on any patient.

Officers said Brady bought the snub-nosed revolver and 12 rounds of hollow-point ammunition, a type designed to expand on impact and cause especially severe wounds, for $129 at a pawn shop in Atlanta on Monday.

by CNB