After stabbing his dad to death with a switchblade, 40-year-old Christopher Brian Claerbout planned to arrest his mom and deliver her to Guantanamo “under the war crimes act for the crimes that she committed against him and the crimes that she committed against the country,” the filing states.
Claerbout, who authorities say stole his handcuffed mother’s wallet before fleeing from cops in his dying father’s SUV, is now facing charges of murder, criminal confinement, domestic battery resulting in serious bodily injury, intimidation, two counts of theft, and one count of auto theft. Shortly after 6 p.m. on Feb. 21, a neighbor called the police to report a domestic dispute at a house across the street, the affidavit explains. When the neighbor said 75-year-old David Claerbout “was down in the driveway,” the dispatcher asked if it looked like he needed an ambulance.
Mental health care was dismantled during the Reagan presidency. This is what we live with now.