The double murder on Wednesday brings up the discussion on mental health and how to treat and combat this issue. Dieckmann mother was an advocate for mental illness writing publicly about fighting for her son's illness.
Taren Petersen and Miles Glasgow work at Region 6 behavioral healthcare they say many times this is not the case.
"I think people are often unsure where to turn for help," said Petersen.
Glasgow said when a person who suffers from a mental illness goes through an episode, it can change them completely, "Think of it as being kind of the worst migraine you can ever imagine, is the same thing when someone is experiencing a mental health crisis".
A crisis Glasgow said can be prevented if the person receives the right type of help.
"I think sometimes those folks aren't accessing the necessary resources to help them and end up highly involved in the criminal justice system just as a result of an inability to get in some of the services or connect with some of the services," said Glasgow.
Those services are all around, the important thing for people to know is where to go for help.
"It's important that families have access to resources to help with their loved one when their loved one may or may not be interested in those services. The idea is to help engage those consumers and engage those folks to be more motivated or finding what the right fit for those services are," said Glasgow.
So hopefully a deadly situation that happened on Grace street doesn't happen again.
"We've come a long way but we still have a long way to go," said Petersen.
Some major hurdles for most mental health programs is money.
In Nebraska some services are NAMI Nebraska, The Nebraska Family Support Network, the Boys Town Hotline, Safe Harbor, The Heartland Family Services.
