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Dylan Lenz’s attorney, Christopher Van Wagner, blamed the prescription of the anti-depressant medication fluoxetine, which he said left the then-17-year-old with psychotic tendencies.

Spokane police are looking for a man who doused another man with gasoline and set him on fire Wednesday afternoon in downtown Spokane.

Dylan Lenz’s attorney, Christopher Van Wagner, blamed the prescription of the anti-depressant medication fluoxetine, which he said left the then-17-year-old with psychotic tendencies.