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HOUSTON — Mental illness prompted Brian Claunch (pictured) to get rid of his own left arm and leg. Then, despite his disabilities, he spent the better part of a decade finding opportunities to run away from residential care facilities, preferring to live on the streets. SEE ALSO: Man, Once On Death Row, Arrested For Allegedly Killing His Wife[1] Yet in recent months, the 45-year-old man who was in a wheelchair and had paranoid schizophrenia seemed to settle into some stability, staying put, taking his medications. That all abruptly ended this past weekend in a confrontation with police in which a Houston police officer fatally shot Claunch. Despite his history of harming himself, Claunch’s criminal and mental health backgrounds don’t indicate he was violent toward others. John Garcia, owner of the Healing Hands Assisted Home Care facility, where Claunch was living and where the confrontation with police happened, recalled a loving but also at times quarrelsome man. Watch Garcia talk about ...
