The disclosure raises new questions about how the man was hired by the Virginia State Police and later by a Virginia sheriff’s office without any red flags.
RICHMOND, Va. — A Virginia sheriff’s deputy who killed the family members of a 15-year-old California girl he tried to sexually extort online had been detained in 2016 for a psychiatric evaluation over threats to kill himself and his father, years before he joined law enforcement, according to a police report.
He drove across the country and on Nov. 25 killed the girl’s mother and grandparents, then set fire to their home in Riverside, a city about 50 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. Edwards watched the Super Bowl with his father on Feb. 7, the report said. Later that night, his father awoke to the sound of his son making noise in the bathroom. The father used a screwdriver to open the door and saw his son with a self-inflicted injury to his hand.
Edwards was taken to a local hospital. His father told authorities he didn’t know why his son had harmed himself but said he might be troubled about a relationship with his girlfriend. Knives and a small hatchet were present in the home. He was taken that day to Ridgeview Pavilion, a psychiatric facility in Bristol, Virginia, according to the order.
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