Astaire said the family couldn’t judge the officers’ actions in hindsight. Obviously, given what happened, they wished the police had searched the room.
But Astaire said the family never suspected Elliot would have guns. “He had no affinity, it seemed, to guns whatsoever,” Astaire said.
Astaire said Elliot played the video game “World of Warcraft” but wasn’t “obsessed with guns or war games.”
Astaire said Elliot had not been diagnosed with Asperger’s but the family suspected he was on the spectrum, and he had been in therapy for years. He said he knew of no other mental illnesses, but Elliot truly had no friends, as he said in his videos and writings.
Astaire said Elliot was incredibly shy, spoke haltingly and rarely looked people in the eye. “He was fundamentally withdrawn,” he said. “The guy on the video was much more confident. That is a guy I never met.”
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