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2019-06-21 -Short Attention Span Theater-

FBI Was Warned About Federal Courthouse Shooter in July, 2016

[DallasNews] A relative of the man who opened fire outside downtown Dallas’ federal building this week warned the FBI in 2016 that he shouldn’t be allowed to buy a gun because he was depressed and suicidal, his mother said Thursday.

Brian Clyde’s half-brother called the FBI about his concerns, their mother Nubia Brede Solis said. Clyde was in the Army at the time.

On Monday, Clyde opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle at the Earle Cabell Federal Building. He was fatally shot by federal law enforcement. No one else was seriously injured. His family believes that Clyde wanted to be killed.

An FBI official confirmed that the half-brother called a national hotline on July 1, 2016, leaving a message to report that Clyde was suicidal and had a fascination with guns.

But the official said the half-brother didn’t report a threat against an entity or individual, so the FBI had no legal reason to pursue an investigation and no further action was taken.
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The half-brother declined to comment Thursday.

Public records show Clyde had no history of violence. Mental health struggles do not automatically prevent someone from owning a gun.

Federal policy was changed after a gunman killed 17 people in February 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

Now, warnings like the one about Clyde are routed to police departments where the calls originated so local officers can follow up and ask the caller for more details. Today, the half-brother’s call would be sent to officers in Washington state, where he lives.

Brede Solis said the FBI never spoke to her about the warning call. She said the half-brother told her about it when she called to tell him Clyde had been killed.

"He felt Brian couldn’t have a gun because he was institutionalized for two weeks and because he was in the Army," Brede Solis said Thursday from her home in Corpus Christi.

Clyde, who had enlisted in the Army right out of high school, had been placed in a mental health facility for two weeks in the summer of 2016, said Brede Solis, 59.

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Clyde's father, Paul, told the Dallas newspaper Wednesday that he suspects his son "went down there purely for suicide by cop." He called it a gut feeling and said he didn't know what might've driven his boy "over the edge."

"We had discussions of suicide thoughts in the past," he told the paper, explaining the most recent conversation came Saturday.

Bryan Clyde, who had struggled with depression, always told him, "Dad, I will never do it. I will never hurt anybody. I'm good. I'm fine," the father said.

When Clyde was in the Army, where he served as an infantryman, he was placed for two weeks in a mental institution at a civilian hospital in Louisiana during a Fort Polk training exercise that employed simulated combat conditions, his mother, Nubia Brede Solis, told The Morning News.

He was discharged from the Army five or six months later, in 2017, his mother told the paper.

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