A shock
Friends say they rarely saw clear signs of mental illness. Hayden never spoke openly about it if he was struggling. There were sometimes flashes of something complicated below the surface; he was never violent, but sometimes he’d get angry or there would be signs that he was caught up in his own head. You could see something in his eyes, said Perez, and it made you wonder what was happening behind them.
“I think there was stuff that he probably wanted to work through and maybe hadn’t,” said Perez. “It wasn’t something that was in your face, necessarily.”
Meghan “Migzy” McGuire, a friend of Hayden’s when he
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