PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Biagio Kauvil’s family had attempted to secure mental health resources for him before a well-being check on Wednesday that turned deadly.
On Friday, District Attorney Timothy Shugrue identified Kauvil, 27, as the man who was killed by police in a shooting incident at 53 Off South St. on Jan. 7. The New York resident, he said, was expressing “paranoid delusional” thoughts on social media, and in calls to the FBI’s National Threat Operation Center and local 911 leading up to the incident.
“This is a horrific scene, and there is a deceased person, and it’s a very sad situation. It was a mental health situation,” Shugrue said during a press conference at his office around noon, right after he had spoken to Kauvil’s family…