OH Suspect Slipped Through

It looks like OH police had their sniper suspect within their grasp on multiple occasions:

The man authorities seek in connection with 24 Ohio shootings was pulled over twice for speeding after the attacks began last May, court records show.

Charles McCoy Jr. was ticketed for speeding May 26 -- more than two weeks after the shootings began. He was ticketed again November 4 -- three weeks before the one fatal shooting in the series of firings.

Imagine the frustration the police must feel upon learning about this. Though of course they likely had no reason to suspect or detain the man any longer than they did, this is the kind of thing that just eats at you.

This part caught my eye as well:

Pappas also said the suspect is considered "suicidal with homicidal tendencies," although he declined to say how authorities came to that conclusion.

It's a shame that people with suicidal and homicidal tendencies so often seem to act on the latter before the former. I think suicide is a tragic and terrible thing, but I don't think it's too cold-hearted to wish that a lot of the murders and murder/suicides we see were just suicides instead. Not much way to encourage such behavior though:

If you are planning to kill your family, your friends, your co-workers, or random strangers before killing yourself, please consider the alternative of simply killing yourself and wreaking no further harm or havoc on the world.

There's no hotline for that. Though sometimes I think there should be.