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This article first appeared on The Trace, an independent, nonprofit media organization dedicated to expanding coverage of guns in the United States.

For months, Jodi Routh would come home from work afraid she'd stumble upon the dead body of her son.

A 25-year-old former Marine, Eddie Routh had moved back to her home in Lancaster, Texas, a small, middle-class suburb just south of Dallas. It was early 2013, and he'd recently taken a job at a local cabinet shop but was struggling with what doctors said was post-traumatic stress disorder.

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His anxiety was so severe he couldn't drive on his own, and he believed his colleagues were cannibals who planned to eat him.

Jodi would drop off her son in the morning on her way to work, and the shop's owner would bring him home.

Because Jodi worked later, Routh was alone for a few hours each afternoon. "When I'd start back to the house," Jodi recalls, "I'd be like, Please don't let me