A 45-year-old man struggling with a “long battle with mental illness” gunned down his mother and brother in their family home in Irvine “to save them,” his defense attorney Monday told an Orange County Superior Court judge who is weighing the defendant’s guilt and insanity plea.
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Nolan Pascal Pillay is charged with two counts of murder with special circumstance allegations of multiple murders with two sentencing enhancements for gun use. He is facing life in prison without the possibility of parole or an indefinite commitment to a state mental hospital…