The family who said the driver who fatally bumped into a police officer before he was shot dead outside the U.S. Capitol on Friday repeatedly picked up.
Noah Green, 25, was “by no means a terrorist,” the family told the Washington Post.
Green studied for his master’s degree in business administration – but also suffered from ‘depression and possible mental illness’, the family said.
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His problems may have stemmed from head trauma that played football during his years, including as a defensive back at Christopher Newport University in Virginia, they said.
Green had a history of worrying behavior and quickly unraveled the night before the attack, his brother Brendan said.
According to Noah Green’s brother, Brendan, his brother was very ill the night before the attack and, according to The Washington Post, sent him an ominous text on Thursday.
“I’m sorry, but I’m going to live and be homeless,” Brendan said his brother sent him in an ominous text sent a day before Friday’s tragedy, according to the Washington Post.
“Thank you for everything you have done,” the text continues. “I looked after myself when I was a kid. You have inspired me a lot. ‘
A day later, Noah crashed his car into a barrier in the Capitol against two officers before loading them with a knife.
Veteran officer William Evans died after the attack. The other officer is being treated in hospital.
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Green had seven sisters and two brothers, and was a prominent defender in the Christopher Newport University football team before paranoia and devotion to the Nation of Islam left family and friends worried about his mental health for the past few years, the newspaper reported.
Noah Green blamed the former teammates for drugging him with Xanax in 2019, which according to one teammate did not happen, the article reads.
Green allegedly believes the alleged incident turned him into a drug addict who was in withdrawal.
He moved into a Newport News apartment and still suffered from hallucinations, palpitations, headaches and suicidal thoughts, his brother told the newspaper.
One day, Noah left Virginia Road and moved to Indianapolis, saying his brother inspired drugs to live there, according to the report.
Brendan flew to his new apartment to investigate Noah’s allegations that people were breaking in, the article reads.
The brother in question told the newspaper that the house looked safe, but Noah’s ‘mind does not look right’.
A few months ago, Noah moved to Botswana and told his brother ‘his mind said he should basically commit suicide’, the report reads. He later jumped in front of a car and needed surgery, Brendan told The Washington Post.
Two weeks ago, an upset Noah apparently called his brother and asked if he could move in with him.
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Noah said he was “in a very bad situation and in a bad state,” Brendan told the newspaper.
After talking to Brendan, he delivered a disturbing message on Facebook two weeks before the attack.
“I was on the right track and everything I planned came to fruition. It took long hours, a lot of study and practice to keep me balanced while experiencing a variety of symptoms along the way (I believe it side effects are from drugs I unknowingly took), ‘he wrote on March 17, signing the message Brother Noah X.
“However, the path was obstructed because Allah (God) chose me for other things. Through the course of life, I set goals, achieved them, set them higher, and then I had to sacrifice those things,” he continued.
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A former teammate of Noah told the newspaper he was a solid athlete, but the team became concerned about him after the intoxicating accusations.
“He was really paranoid from that time forward,” Andre Toran apparently said.
Another teammate said he showed no signs of anxiety.
“He was a man getting up,” Damian Jiggetts told the newspaper.
“He was on the dean’s list. He was a motivator. It was the Noah I knew, and no matter what happened today, that’s what his legacy should be.”