Ohio Supreme Court Justice probes mental health crisis’ role in attack

Amid a mental health crisis, Devin Galinari struck a teenager with a baseball bat, attacked a Steak ‘n Shake late-shift manager trying to help her and smashed the windows out of eight vehicles.

Galinari, who was 22 years old at the time of the May 2018 attack in Montgomery, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for the attack, which left the manager in a coma for two weeks. But Ohio Supreme Court Justice Michael Donnelly wrote that there’s a “profoundly unsettling issue that underlies this case.”

“If Galinari committed the crimes while in a mental health crisis, then the law requires that he be treated differently than if he had acted while not in a mental-health crisis,” Donnelly wrote, adding that it appears Galinari was in a crisis during the attacks. “If true, then this case demonstrates how easily mentally ill people can enter the prison system.”