The brother of Manhattan murder victim Rashaun Howze has worked with the mentally ill — so he has a unique understanding of how the system failed his mentally ill sibling, despite his best, desperate efforts to help before his brother was stabbed on the street.
Howze, who had been out of prison since 2018 after being convicted of murdering a Queens teenager in 1995, was rebuilding his life and making progress on anti-psychotic medications, said his brother Shane Howze.
When Rashaun Howze’s parole supervision ended, his incentive to stay on his meds vanished, his brother said.
