The killer who murdered a mother and her teenage daughter before taking his own life had a 10cm cyst on his brain and had been acting “aggressively” towards hospital staff in the weeks before the tragedy, a medical worker has claimed.
New details about Mark Bombara’s health have come to light after he broke into the home of Jennifer Petelczyc, 53, in Floreat, Perth, on the afternoon of May 24.
He was looking for his ex-wife, who had been staying at Ms Petelczyc’s home, but when he couldn’t find her, he shot dead the 53-year-old man and his daughter Gretl, 18, before turning the gun on himself.
A health care worker, who chose to remain anonymous, has since claimed that Bombara likely would not have been discharged from the hospital if staff had known of his large gun collection at home, given the change in his behavior in the past few years. last months.
An anonymous Perth healthcare worker claimed double murderer Mark Bombara, 63, (who stayed with his ex-wife) had a 10cm cyst on his brain and had been acting aggressively.
After being discharged, Bombara shot dead Jennifer Petelczyc, 53, and her daughter Gretl, 18, (pictured) at their Floreat home in Perth before turning the gun on himself at around 4: 30 pm on May 24.
“If they had sent someone home with 13 guns, with a cyst that big and exhibiting that behavior… there would have been an argument with the police,” they said. WA today.
The healthcare worker claimed Bombara’s behavior got so bad that staff recommended his driver’s license be suspended for medical reasons.
“He seemed volatile, which may be due to a brain injury.” This had only been identified in the last few months and this sort of thing adds up over time. He was a very sick man,’ they continued.
The worker said Bombara also suffered two mini-strokes in January.
Bombara was admitted to hospital after the first stroke, known as a transient ischemic attack, before returning weeks later after suffering another.
The worker stated that other health professionals and family members expressed concern about Bombara’s increasingly aggressive and erratic behavior in recent months.
They said health care workers should be able to check online databases to see if patients exhibiting risky behavior were licensed to own guns.
“We need mandatory reporting and better ability to assess risk; we need to know if people have firearms,” they said.
The Northern Metropolitan Health Service, which treated Bombara, said his mental health was reviewed at the time and “there are no signs of reduced mental capacity (or) aggression”.
“Mr Bombara was treated by Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in early May for a series of small strokes,” said the health service’s acting chief executive, Joel Gurr.
‘While he was in our care, the treating team reviewed his mental health and determined that there were no signs of reduced mental capacity, aggression or suicide risk.
“Mental health clinicians routinely refer to the police if they are concerned that a patient is being assessed as aggressive or at risk to others, but in this case, the patient did not exhibit any behavior that would trigger this process.”
Bombara’s daughter Ariel issued her own statement on Tuesday, blaming WA Police for dismissing her family’s concerns about his behavior leading up to the murder-suicide.
The health worker said Bombara suffered two mini-strokes in early May.
Ariel Bombara (pictured) issued a statement on Tuesday in which she partly blamed WA Police, who she said ignored her family’s concerns about Bombara’s behaviour.
Bombara was known to police, but he had no history of violence and was not being monitored.
She said she spoke to police three times between March 30 and April 2, after she and her mother fled the family home on March 28 “out of fear for our lives.”
“Each time I alerted the officers about my father’s weapons and told them that my mother and I felt there was a real and imminent threat to our lives,” he wrote.
‘I specifically mentioned that there was a Glock pistol that was missing. It is my understanding that this would ultimately be one of the weapons my father used to take the lives of two innocent women.
Ariel also asked the police for a 72-hour temporary protection order, which was denied.
“We were told no and that the police couldn’t do anything about the situation at that time,” he said.
Bombara possessed 11 guns with a recreational shooter permit and two guns with a collector’s license, one of which was used to kill Ms. Petelczyc and her daughter.
Police Minister Paul Papalia said Bombara had no previous convictions and no history of a violence restraining order against him.
Papalia said Bombara became known to police after his ex-wife requested that officers be present at the house while she was packing her belongings due to “family domestic violence (FDV) issues.”
“But none of them had been reported to the police and the police didn’t know about it other than her approaching them at that time,” Papalia said.
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