'No shame in getting help …’

SEATTLE, Washington - The lead detective on the Jewish Center shooting case, David Duty of the Seattle Police Department, testified Tuesday that Naveed Haq’s parents tried to keep weapons out of their son’s hands. They stashed the weapons in a bedroom closet at their home to keep them out of his reach.

Also, said Duty, Haq apparently wrote a khutba - a Muslin sermon - on how attitudes toward mental illness have developed from belief in possession by evil to the recognition of a brain disease.

Haq wrote, “There is no shame in getting help if you need it.”

Judge Paris Kallas also issued a ruling allowing the state to end its case the way prosecutors had hoped - with 911 calls by three women caught in the attack. Carol Goldman, who testified earlier she was likely in shock at the time, sounded remarkably composed as she nursed a leg wound hiding under her desk until SWAT officers arrived.

– In Session staff