The Latest: Aunt says mall killer sought mental health help

The family of a man who fatally stabbed two people and assaulted others inside a Massachusetts mall before he was shot and killed says he had been discharged from a hospital without being treated for his mental illness.

A Taunton woman says her teenage daughter watched in horror as a man crashed his car into a Macy's department store, then threw a store employee to the floor.

Coffey says she's worried about how the incident will affect her daughter, but grateful that she wasn't hurt.

Acquaintances of the suspect in fatal stabbings in Taunton, Massachusetts, say they are struggling to make sense of the rampage.

Police say 28-year-old Arthur DaRosa stabbed four people, two of them fatally, and assaulted others inside a mall before he was shot and killed by an off-duty sheriff's deputy.

Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph McDonald Jr. said Wednesday that Deputy James Creed was off-duty, out of uniform and dining with his wife when Arthur DaRosa attacked staff and patrons Tuesday at a Bertucci's restaurant in the Silver City Galleria Taunton, 40 miles from Boston.

McDonald says he's proud of Creed's "heroic actions and his ability to apply his professional training and restraint in an obviously traumatic and perilous situation."

Authorities are hailing three people as heroes for intervening when a man went on a stabbing rampage at a home and a shopping mall in Taunton.

District Attorney Thomas Quinn III said Arthur DaRosa was shot and killed by James Creed, an off-duty deputy sheriff who was eating dinner at Bertucci's in the Silver City Galleria on Tuesday when DaRosa stabbed two people.

Quinn said the rampage began after DaRosa left his daughter's soccer practice, crashed his car, then walked into a home and fatally stabbed 80-year-old Patricia Slavin.

Authorities have identified the second victim who was fatally stabbed by a man who went on a rampage at a home and later attacked people at a shopping mall.

Bristol District Attorney Thomas Quinn III said DaRosa then drove to the Silver City Galleria and crashed his car into a Macy's department store, where he beat three women.

The superintendent-director of Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical School says George Heath was a visual design teacher there.