Well before he was accused of slashing a Muslim cab driver across the neck, Michael Enright, the 21-year-old college student now charged with the crime, preoccupied his time, almost obsessively, with exploring post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Now implicated in a bizarre, seemingly racially motivated attack on an unsuspecting cab driver, those who either knew Enright or consulted with him are waking to the belief that he may have been suffering from PTSD himself.
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Michael Anthony, an Iraq war veteran, told the Huffington Post on Thursday that Enright reached out to him last year to discuss an advanced copy of his own book: "Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq.'"
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"There were zero hints of any prejudice or bigotry," Anthony said of those talks. "He was just a good guy trying to help vets."
"That's the crazy part," he added. "We had talked about these issues and he was clearly not racist at all and then next thing I know, he is back from Afghanistan and this happens. I don't know if he got PTSD, but that is the only thing I can think of that could change someone that drastically in a short period of time."