The family of a man accused in violent attacks on three people on Anspach Street, devastated with the harm he’s accused of, saw that he was going downhill and was trying to get help for him right up until the day in question.

The spree began just before 7:00 p.m. Monday night when RNC got a call about a man screaming and banging on doors in an apartment building. By the time it was all over, a man was charged with nearly killing two women and seriously injuring a man.

Thirty-two year-old Mitchell Rose appeared in court yesterday and was sent for a week-long psychiatric assessment.

His mother, Trudy Hickey and sister, Janaya Rose, noticed last week that he was beginning to withdraw. Sunday was his birthday but his mom and sister say he was already spiraling.

They knocked on his apartment to wish him happy birthday and give him a gift, but they say he wanted no part of it.

Calling interventionist help lines and organizations proved fruitless. Not even two calls to the Mobile Crisis Unit resulted in any progress.

They say all the Mobile Crisis Unit would do was knock on his door and ask if he needed help. They told the workers that the situation was not going to end well, but they thought that Mitchell was a threat not to others – only himself.