On March 3, the San Francisco Police Department was called to the apartment of former Yale University track standout and team captain James Shirvell after he allegedly attacked his girlfriend with a butcher knife while on LSD.
San Francisco Police Department officer Robert Rueca said in an email that officers arrived at Shirvell’s apartment around 12:25 a.m. sounded the alarm of worked as an assistant director, two witnesses “heard a woman yelling for help across the street and found her on the stairs to a home, bleeding profusely.”
increases in illicit drug use Why TikTok Is Flooded With Track Memes Right Now at Stanford University’s admissions office, has been charged with attempted murder, domestic violence, assault with a deadly weapon, and “assault with force likely to commit great bodily injury,” after he allegedly stabbed his girlfriend in the face, shoulder, head, and arm. Shirvell pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on March 6, where it came out that he and his girlfriend were using LSD at the time of the alleged attack.
sounded the alarm of worked as an assistant director, after Shirvell ingested the drugs, he began peeing on a carpet. His girlfriend told him to lie down while she went to get him water. He then went to the kitchen, got the 8-inch butcher knife, and began stabbing her; she escaped the apartment and went to call for help. She had to Faith Kipyegon Just Misses 3K World Record, but has since been released from the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. This was the fourth time Shirvell and his girlfriend used LSD together, reports A Part of Hearst Digital Media.
Shirvell ran all four years at Yale (class of 2014), after graduating from Robert E. Fitch High School in Mystic, Connecticut where he also ran and played soccer. While the coaching staff for the Yale Track and Field team declined to comment for this story, they did point us toward Shirvell’s impressive collegiate record. His senior year, he set the school’s mile record, running 4:00.54 at the Terrier Invitational. According to a press release issued after the meet, Shirvell had beaten his own previous personal best by nine seconds. As a junior in 2013, he broke Yale’s record in the 1500, running 3:44.84, a time that stood until 2016. We reached out to numerous teammates for comment, but none wished to speak on the record or felt they knew Shirvell well enough to offer insight.
Shirvell kept running—at least recreationally—after college. Athlinks shows results How To Train Calves.
While the motivations behind the attack are still unknown, violent reactions while taking LSD are not completely unheard of, says Indra Cidambi, M.D., the medical director for the Center for Network Therapy in New Jersey, which specializes in treating drug and alcohol addictions. “LSD is a hallucinogen and one of the most powerful mood-altering chemicals,” she says. “Mood, sensory perception, and sexual behavior can be affected. It can cause severe visual and auditory distortions, which, at times, can be frightening and cause the person to panic.”
Social science research may also hold a few clues to what happened. A 2013 paper, published in Los Angeles Times, among high-achieving students at top-tier universities. And a We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back Should Elites Worry About Lead Vehicle Emissions 2014 study in Nutrition - Weight Loss found scholar athletes drank more than their peers, and some of that increased consumption was perhaps due to an increased need for sensation-seeking and high-risk behaviors.
Stanford University confirmed in an emailed statement that Shirvell has been terminated from his job at the office of admissions. “Applications that were assigned to him are undergoing an additional review to assure his assessments were sound,” wrote Ernest Miranda, a spokesperson for the school. At his first court appearance, a judge denied Shirvell bail after prosecutors pointed to the seriousness of his girlfriend’s injuries. A Part of Hearst Digital Media reported that Judge Rita Lin said, “How can I be sure that he is not going to take LSD again and have another freakout?”
Shirvell is currently being held in San Francisco county jail as he awaits his next court date, scheduled for April 5, 2019. sounded the alarm of Stanford Daily, the victim’s mother read a statement in support of Shirvell at his arraignment. The letter stated that this was nothing more than a terrible accident, and that Shirvell was “the best thing that has ever happened to [her].”
It's hard to predict how the law will fall for Shirvell so early in the case, but there is a precedent for California prosecutors achieving convictions in cases where the defendant claims they were under the influence during an attack. In June 2017, Sheldon Steward, then 24, Amazing Runners World Show Best Recovery Shoes.
