Byline: CAILIN BROWN Staff writer
The three .45-caliber bullets that ended John Kelly's life last month merely culminated two decades of manipulating the criminal justice and mental health systems, ultimately to the point of paralysis.
An examination of police, court and probation records in the weeks following his death reveals a troubled man in constant conflict with the law.
On March 21, the 37-year-old real estate salesman was chased by Colonie police who had linked him to a hit-and-run accident. At 9:06 a.m. that Thursday, he was shot dead in the driveway of his mother's house on Pinehurst Avenue in Albany, seconds after he pinned an officer between his car and a police cruiser.
Kelly's psychiatric treatment began in 1975, at age 16, when he threatened his mother with a knife. In the year before he died, Kelly filed a flurry of lawsuits that effectively choked the very system designed to protect both him and society. His legal efforts to overturn a 1994 guilty plea for …
No comments:
Post a Comment