Mental health issues
After a request to check on his welfare by Karen McAleer, a fellow Baltimore police officer, who is the mother of Rice’s son deputies go to Rice’s home in Carroll County, Maryland, about 35 miles northwest of Baltimore. Deputies report that Rice appears “normal and soft spoken” and say he had been seeking “sympathy and attention.” But citing “credible information,” the deputies confiscate both his official and personal guns, called his commanding officer and transport Rice to the Carroll Hospital Center. Te guns include his .40-caliber police pistol, a 9 mm handgun, an AK-47-style rifle, a .22-caliber rifle and two shotguns. It is not clear whther the guns were returned to Rice. The sheriff’s report says the weapons “should be returned back to owner pending determination of the (censored).”