NC, Southport, reports of a mass shooting at Southport Yacht Basin, September 27th 2025.

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Marlowe93 said:
That sounds lovely.

The area will come back from this, I promise. It sounds like a place I'd like to visit.
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100% agree. I live in Manhattan, and the downtown area came back after 9/11 (even better than ever, tbh).

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It will be interesting to see A) if it was a legal gun (which it probably was) and 2) when it was purchased.

Shouldn't there be some kind of legal record of a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia? Or are the gun laws so lax in North Carolina that basically anyone that is not a convicted felon can buy one?
 
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sunspun said:
What's up with his 2 names??
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He changed his given name Sean Debevoise, to Nigel Edge in 2023 as he said he could not trust his family, most likely due to the PTS and delusions he has been facing. He was shot 4 times and left to die, as a Marine Sgt. He apparently was a Purple Heart recipient.
 
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Inthedetails said:
Because he's out of touch with reality, imo.

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Yes exactly, but I think it might also tell us something about how his mental health declined over the years. Something was causing him to go back and start fixating on things from the past like that event he attended. I am curious if he told anyone he thought he was poisoned after that night in the days/weeks after or did this not come up until recently when he started saying all the other things.

Edited to add: I see the post about his name change in 2023, so it seems maybe the key timeframe is somewhere in 2022-2023 and maybe he had some increasing or worsening issues that caused the name change and all the court cases.
 
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justtrish said:
Yes exactly, but I think it might also tell us something about how his mental health declined over the years. Something was causing him to go back and start fixating on things from the past like that event he attended. I am curious if he told anyone he thought he was poisoned after that night in the days/weeks after or did this not come up until recently when he started saying all the other things.

Edited to add: I see the post about his name change in 2023, so it seems maybe the key timeframe is somewhere in 2022-2023 and maybe he had some increasing or worsening issues that caused the name change and all the court cases.
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Post-covid/lockdowns perhaps? Perhaps he was unable to access treatment during the pandemic and fell deeper and deeper into his delusions.
 
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rsteen said:
Post-covid/lockdowns perhaps? Perhaps he was unable to access treatment during the pandemic and fell deeper and deeper into his delusions.
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GREAT point! I think this could be a contributing factor. I know it's also a time when conspiracies ran wild. I think too much time home and nothing to do really did a number on people. So, if he was starting to go down a darker path and then COVID hits and he's suddenly got life upended in other ways I can definitely see it making all the conspiracy ideas run wild. IMO
 
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Justice101 said:
It will be interesting to see A) if it was a legal gun (which it probably was) and 2) when it was purchased.

Shouldn't there be some kind of legal record of a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia? Or are the gun laws so lax in North Carolina that basically anyone that is not a convicted felon can buy one?
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I haven’t seen anything to suggest he’s been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. I’ve only seen PTSD and his TBI referenced.

As far as gun laws and mental illness are concerned, only those who have been involuntarily committed to a mental facility via court order or declared insane by a judge (e.g., conservatorship) are added to the national database. All authorized gun dealers are required to run a background check regardless of the state, but not all guns are purchased from authorized dealers. He may have inherited the gun or purchased it from a private dealer. NC doesn’t require a permit to buy a gun and gun owners aren’t required to register their guns.
 
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cujenn81 said:
I haven’t seen anything to suggest he’s been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. I’ve only seen PTSD and his TBI referenced.

As far as gun laws and mental illness are concerned, only those who have been involuntarily committed to a mental facility via court order or declared insane by a judge (e.g., conservatorship) are added to the national database. All authorized gun dealers are required to run a background check regardless of the state, but not all guns are purchased from authorized dealers. He may have inherited the gun or purchased it from a private dealer. NC doesn’t require a permit to buy a gun and gun owners aren’t required to register their guns.
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It was reported fairly early although I cannot find the source other than AI....

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Yes, Nigel Edge was reportedly diagnosed with schizophrenia. According to news reports and public records following his involvement in a mass shooting, he received the diagnosis after sustaining a severe traumatic brain injury during his military service in Iraq.
Key details about his mental health:
  • Military service and injury: Edge, who legally changed his name from Sean William DeBevoise, was a Marine sniper who served in Iraq. He sustained a traumatic brain injury from a gunshot wound to the head in 2006.
  • Diagnosis and symptoms: Reports indicate that following his injury, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and experienced disordered and delusional thinking. His ex-wife stated that after returning from war, he became delusional and immersed himself in conspiracy theories.
  • Delusional beliefs: Online posts and court records show he became increasingly consumed by conspiracy theories. He claimed he was being targeted by a "white supremacist LGBTQ paedophile ring" and filed numerous lawsuits against individuals and institutions, including his own parents."
 
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cujenn81 said:
I haven’t seen anything to suggest he’s been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. I’ve only seen PTSD and his TBI referenced.

As far as gun laws and mental illness are concerned, only those who have been involuntarily committed to a mental facility via court order or declared insane by a judge (e.g., conservatorship) are added to the national database. All authorized gun dealers are required to run a background check regardless of the state, but not all guns are purchased from authorized dealers. He may have inherited the gun or purchased it from a private dealer. NC doesn’t require a permit to buy a gun and gun owners aren’t required to register their guns.
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We also don't know when he purchased the gun, if he was the one to buy it. Assuming you can buy a gun at 18 (I'm not American so not sure what the specific laws are), he potentially could've had it for over 20 years
 
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justtrish said:
I think this is going to go beyond PTSD.

I also am a military spouse, military mother of 2 who serve this country, daughter and granddaughter of those who have served, so I understand the care that is available during and post military.

There can be many reasons why someone isn't getting the care they need. There are wait times, provider shortages, and red tape when dealing with the VA. I can imagine for someone injured as badly as he was, he could need a lot of long-term care and year after year trying to deal with the VA and often getting told to jump through all their hoops over and over again, it can be draining and result in people giving up. Not saying this is what happened, or this is an excuse, but sometimes it isn't as easy as they have help available. It can be cumbersome to get the help and for a Vet with PTSD and possibly other mental health issues, they aren't always thinking like you or I or someone rational would. I've seen it with my own family members and friends. Having a support system is KEY.. someone to advocate for you when you get tired of it, someone to encourage you to keep going to appointments, to make another one, to call and try again, to keep fighting for yourself. It can wear people down, so they just give up.

Now this is all my opinion but based on the many lawsuits he was filing for things that seem very much made up or imagined by him, it sounds like he is paranoid and possibly having something else mentally going on other than PTSD. It is not PTSD to think people are poisoning you or trying to get you because they are LGBTQ and you are heterosexual.

Reading that one court document with his parents listed and their response was they want him to get mental health help. There needs to be an easier path for someone to be put on a 72 hour hold. It sounds like he needed to be in patient getting some intensive care to figure out if he needed meds or what exactly was causing all this paranoia. It was so very documented in all his lawsuits and instead of just dismissing them, someone should have been able to do something more for him. He was a ticking time bomb.
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I have a feeling that it is a mental health case, but the underlying reason is neurological.

If he was severely wounded in the head and part of his skull is missing, it is not difficult to imagine what are the inner consequences. Not as much TBI as a scar or scars. They might interfere with the regularity of the brainwaves. The person that he probably needed to see was not a PTSD specialist but a neurosurgeon, but even their help is limited because no one can afford additional loss of brain matter. It might be one of these very unlucky situations when a person is not in control of his paranoid thoughts. I wouldn’t like to meet such a person anywhere, but I also understand that he is the man who has been severely wounded into his head at war. This is one of the toughest lucks that you don’t wish on anyone, his victims, himself, and his parents.
 
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Did all his strange paranoid behaviors begin only after that brain injury or is there evidence of him being "different" before that also?
 
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