> Upon landing, police officers took Mr. Emerson, 44, into custody, and Multnomah County prosecutors charged him with 83 counts of attempted murder — one for every passenger and crew member he was accused of trying to kill.
Clearly, he wasn't intentionally trying to kill each and every one of the individuals with malice aforethought, and there are probably quite a number of other crimes/charges that would more appropriately fit.
Weird headline .. from the article it's pretty clear that it wasn't a "5 day trip", but that he had undiagnosed mental health issues, and that tripping on mushrooms kicked them off in a horrible way. The half life of Psilocybin is only ~2 hours, it's scientifically impossible to still have it active in your system 5 days later.
First time with psychedelics, not prepared for it, no sleep. Doesn't surprise me he had a psychotic episode. But also that doesn't mean he shouldn't face consequences for his actions. When I've been in similar mindstates I just waited it out because I knew I needed rest and things would eventually be normal.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 11.9 ms ] threadedit: this is deeply wrong, IMO:
> Upon landing, police officers took Mr. Emerson, 44, into custody, and Multnomah County prosecutors charged him with 83 counts of attempted murder — one for every passenger and crew member he was accused of trying to kill.
Clearly, he wasn't intentionally trying to kill each and every one of the individuals with malice aforethought, and there are probably quite a number of other crimes/charges that would more appropriately fit.