The demented driver who mortally rammed a policeman before being shot outside the United States Capitol on Friday may have suffered repeated trauma to the head for years playing football, his family said on Saturday.
Noah Green, 25, “was not a terrorist at all,” the family told the Washington Post.
Green was studying for his master’s in business administration – but he also suffered from “potential depression and mental illness,” the family said.
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His problems may have stemmed from head trauma that has accumulated over his years playing football, including as a defender at Christopher Newport University in Virginia, they said.
Green had a history of disruptive behavior and was quickly unraveling the night before the attack, said his brother Brendan.
Noah Green’s brother Brendan said his brother was very ill the night before the attack and sent him a threatening text on Thursday, according to The Washington Post.
“‘I’m sorry, but I’m just going to live and be homeless,'” Brendan told his brother in a threatening message sent the day before Friday’s tragedy, according to the Washington Post.
“Thank you for everything you’ve done,” continued the text. “I admired you when I was a child. You inspired me a lot.”
A day later, Noah crashed his car into two officers at a Capitol barricade before attacking them with a knife.
Veteran officer William Evans died after the attack. The other police officer is being treated at the hospital.
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Green had seven sisters and two brothers and was a prominent supporter on the Christopher Newport University football team before paranoia and devotion to the Nation of Islam had left his family and friends concerned about his mental health in recent years, the newspaper reported.
Noah Green blamed former teammates for drugging him with Xanax in 2019, which a colleague said didn’t happen, the article said.
Green claimed that the alleged incident turned him into a drug addict who was abstinent.
He moved into a Newport News apartment and continued to suffer hallucinations, heart palpitations, headaches and suicidal thoughts, his brother told the newspaper.
One day Noah abandoned the Virginia pad and moved to Indianapolis, telling his brother that the drugs inspired him to live there, according to the report.
Brendan flew to his new apartment to investigate Noah’s claims that people were breaking in, the article said.
The brother in question told the newspaper that the house looked safe, but “Noah’s mind didn’t feel right”.
Several months ago, Noah moved to Botswana and told his brother that “his mind was telling him to basically commit suicide,” the report said. He later jumped in front of a car and needed surgery, Brendan told The Washington Post.
Two weeks ago, a distraught Noah called his brother and asked if he could live with him.
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Noah said he was “in a very bad situation and in a very bad state,” Brendan told the newspaper.
After staying with Brendan, he made a worrying post on Facebook two weeks before the attack.
“I was on the right track and everything I had planned was beginning to exist. It took many hours, a lot of study and exercise to stay balanced while experiencing a series of worrying symptoms along the way (I believe they are side effects of drugs who was taking it without knowing it) “, he wrote on March 17, signing the message Brother Noah X.
“However, the path was frustrated, because Allah (God) chose me for other things. Throughout my life I set goals, achieved them, set higher goals and then I was forced to sacrifice those things,” he continued.
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A former Noah teammate told the newspaper he was a solid athlete, but the team became concerned about him after the drug charges.
“He was really paranoid from that point forward,” said Andre Toran.
Another teammate said he showed no signs of being upset.
“He was a standing guy,” Damian Jiggetts told the newspaper.
“He was on the dean’s list. He was a motivator. This was the Noah I knew and regardless of what happened today, this is his legacy.”