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Byline: Josh Mitchell
Aug. 21--Adam B. Rothstein suffered from bipolar disorder since childhood, and had spent the last several weeks recovering from surgery on his foot. But the 24-year-old Parkville man was upbeat about returning to work as a security guard, his father said, and even found joy in the simple act of picking up his new uniform.
On Sunday morning, two police officers showed up at Richard Rothstein's Pikesville home to tell him that his son was dead -- shot by police after he pointed what turned out to be a pellet gun at them.
"It wasn't like he wanted to go out killing people," Richard Rothstein said yesterday, in between making funeral arrangements and comforting grieving relatives at his house. "It wasn't 3 o'clock in the afternoon in a crowded mall and he decided to take out people. ... He did not want to hurt anybody."
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Source: HighBeam Research, Armed man said to be harmless: Father of armed man killed by the...