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To: gao seng who wrote (187)	9/7/1999 10:59:00 PM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 193

Police Find Prozac In Atlanta Shooter's Car Reuters Photo Full Coverage Atlanta Office Shootings ATLANTA (Reuters) - Police found the anti-depressant drug Prozac in the van of a stock market day trader who killed 13 people in a rampage that ended when he shot himself, a newspaper reported Wednesday. The Atlanta Constitution obtained a copy of a 208-page police report on the murder spree in which Mark Barton bludgeoned to death his wife and children in their suburban home before driving to Atlanta where he gunned down nine people at two brokerages that handled his business as a day trader. Atlanta police had previously refused to release their formal report, which revealed details of the killings, including the fact that several capsules of Prozac were found inside the van where Barton killed himself, the newspaper said. The Georgia Bureau of Investigations has not released the results of toxicology tests taken during an autopsy, which would show whether Barton took Prozac in the days before the killings in late July. The shootings were the deadliest mass killings in Atlanta history and among the most grisly in the United States, where such incidents have happened repeatedly in recent years. Barton left a typed confession blaming the killings on stock market losses. A trained chemist who had worked as a salesman, Barton had reportedly lost hundreds of thousands of dollars as a day trader on the Internet in the months leading up to the killings. The police report also revealed that Barton went to an attorney's office on July 26, three days before the shooting rampage in the brokerages, and rewrote his will, leaving everything to his two children. The following day, he killed his wife Leigh Ann, and the day after that he killed the children. On the day of the shootings, he called his lawyer, Joseph Fowler of Douglasville, Georgia, an Atlanta suburb, and said he wanted to change the will again, leaving everything to his 76-year-old mother. Fowler told the newspaper that Barton also wanted the will to stipulate that the children be buried next to their mother, Debra Spivey, who was killed in Alabama in 1993. Barton was the only suspect in that homicide. The lawyer said he was not alarmed at the phone call because it ''did not strike me as being unusual or out of order'' since the children's mother was deceased. Hours later Barton would storm the brokerages and then kill himself.