Nancy Kerrigan's brother sent for mental evaluation

Police reports revealed that Mark Kerrigan had behaved erratically and aggressively during several tense confrontations with police in recent years, including one in which he asked police to shoot him.

In March 2005, Janet Kerrigan called police around 1 a.m. from a nearby drug store, reporting that Mark Kerrigan was throwing things from her Wilmington house into the yard. When police arrived, they saw debris strewn across the front yard, and a computer smashed in the street. When no one answered the door, police spotted Kerrigan walking down a nearby road with his dog, a large Rottweiler. When an officer approached, Kerrigan walked quickly toward him, screaming and cursing at him. He then told the dog to "sic-em."

"Despite ordering him several times to stop, he continued walking toward me while screaming profanities," a police officer said in the report. "Mr. Kerrigan was extremely upset and vocal about the police being at his house. He was breathing very heavy and clenching his teeth."

Kerrigan then walked back to his house and grabbed two large fixed-blade hunting knives. He came back to the front porch and began thrusting the knives forward in a stabbing motion, yelling, "Come on, come on." Officers ordered him several times to drop the weapons but he instead yelled at police to shoot him, saying "I want to die. Kill me please," according to the report.

Police were able to subdue Kerrigan after he angrily threw the knives to the ground. On the way to the station, he kicked the car window as he yelled, "I want to die."

In an interview with police, Janet Kerrigan said her husband had threatened to kill himself, either by himself or by having police shoot him. She said he had been drinking that night and that while he did not drink often, he was "uncontrollable and unpredictable" when he did.

In March 2006, Janet Kerrigan came to the Wilmington police station around 10 a.m. after a violent altercation with Mark Kerrigan. She told police Kerrigan had punched her in the eye and thrown her to the ground. He became angry when he woke up to find that Kerrigan's teenage daughter and her boyfriend had spent the night at the house. He said he was going out to "get a bottle" and Janet Kerrigan asked him to pick up some cigarettes.

When he returned, he quickly downed a half-pint of vodka. When Janet asked him why he drank so much so quickly, he said it was how he "dealt with his problems."

Janet threatened to leave the house, but said he took her car keys and broke them. He then went to the attic and returned with a bow and arrow. He later grabbed two knives and slashed the tires on her car. As she was leaving with her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, Kerrigan punched her and slammed to the pavement, threatening to kill her.

Police arrested Kerrigan, who then broke the sprinkler head in his jail cell, according to the report.