It would have been better coverage if the media had reported which psychotropics the Asperger's young man had been taking, so that instead of putting autism spectrum and "not in his right mind" together, they could have appropriately put the cause of "not being in his right mind" in the right place -- either SSRIs or anti-psychotics. Dr. Kelly Brogan (holistic psychiatrist who has amazing courage and insight) recently blogged about just this: https://kellybroganmd.com/homicide-and-the-ssri-alibi/.