Plot

It wasn't suicide that drove a man to drive his SUV on the Metrolink tracks, it was anger - and a plot to get back at, or just get back, his wife.

It's all too crazy and too tragic.

They claim the defendant had a history of suicide attempts beginning when he was 8 and tried to hang himself. They said he changed his mind about suicide only minutes before the train approached. After he saw the devastation he ran to a friend's house, got scissors and stabbed himself, they said, and was hospitalized for his wounds.

There doesn't seem to be too strong an argument in the article that this incident was caused by the defendant's mental illness. But that seems likely, no?