Pastor: Mental illness drove man to ram car into his family
A "pillar of the community" who was suffering from severe mental illness left a meal with his family, got into his sport utility vehicle and then drove at high speed into the restaurant, killing his daughter and daughter-in-law and critically injuring other relatives, his pastor said Monday. "Not in a million years could anybody who knows Roger Self ever imagine he would do this," said the Rev. Austin Rammell of Venture Church in Dallas, North Carolina, a close friend of the family. "It's very possible that in his mind, he was thinking the best thing for this family was that they all go to heaven together," Rammell said at a news conference.
