Toxicology reports later showed the attacker, a 28-year-old local with a history of mental illness, was in an altered state of consciousness. He felt no pain.
On the third blow, he shattered the double-pane glass with his own body and stumbled into the living room, cut up but frantically active.
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“He wasn’t shouting threats,” the police report states. “He was laughing and humming ‘Jingle Bell Rock’ while blood dripped from his face onto the Millers’ white carpet.”
The family barricaded themselves behind an overturned sofa while James tried to get to his gun safe upstairs, but the path to the stairs was cut off.
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