A manual for recovery sits abandoned on a picnic table outside Midwest Mental Health Clinic in Fargo, Oct. 19. Name obscured to protect the identity of the owner. Photo by Michael Standaert, North Dakota News Cooperative
Stigma, treatment gaps, lack of community engagement undermine care
Signs of trouble should have been obvious long before Robert Bracken shot his son Justin, his older brother Richard, his employer Doug Dulmage, and finally, himself, with a .357 revolver on Aug. 29, 2022.
With an unthinkable scene of four dead bodies in a blue-skied North Dakota grain field, it appeared an act fueled by towering ins…
