He may have been reaching out to her, hoping she'd call the police or get him the help he wasn't comfortable accessing himself.

My oldest daughter had a friend who was threatening a Columbine-type massacre at her school. After talking with him online for a few hours, she finally told us and we called the police. They took him to the hospital, where he got in-patient treatment for several weeks. The first few days he was there, he refused to take her calls or see her, saying he was angry that she'd stopped him... after about a week, he called and asked to see her, and told her how grateful he was that she'd gotten him help. It turned out he didn't even have a gun; he was just desperate and couldn't call for himself.

There was a happy ending to that story, and I hope there will be to this one, too. I think she did the right thing.

MP, I think you did the right thing.