Suspect Mentally Ill, Family Says ; Sister Says He Needed Round- the-Clock Care

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Developmentally disabled and suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, Shane Cole has a tenuous grip on reality and needs more help to cope with his illness than he received, his family says.

Cole is in the Clark County Jail on suspicion of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Hazel Stephens, 59. She lived with her family in the apartment next to Cole's at 305 W. McLoughlin Blvd. Cole allegedly asked Stephens to step into the hallway of their apartment building, then stabbed her. She died at the scene Friday night.

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Suspect Mentally Ill, Family Says ; Sister Says He Needed Round- the-Clock Care

Cole's sister, Heather, who didn't want her last name used, said her family had been begging social-service agencies to provide Cole with round-the-clock care. They had hoped he could live in a place that would have tra...

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