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ByLynnElber The Associated Press LOS ANGELES In public, Robin Williams shared only the joy he found in life, never the sorrow. He was the same man in pri- vate, shielding even long- time friends from the dark- ness of depression that fi- nally enveloped him. "I can honestly say I never saw him in the down times," said comedian David Stein- berg, who was friends with Williams for more than 30 years and toured with him for six months last year in a two-man show. "I read about it, heard about it, but that down time he kept to himself." When the endlessly in- ventive, explosively manic comedian and actor was found dead in his North- ern California home Mon- day, an apparent suicide, the brutal shock was felt by fans, friends and colleagues alike. Williams, 63, who had been so breezily open about seeking therapy — "I went to rehab in wine country to keep my options open," he joked in 2006 — minimized or hid the immensity of his pain from perhaps all but a handful of people. Steve Martin, a pal who worked with Wil- liams, tweeted that he was "stunned by the loss." Chevy Chase, in a statement, said he and friend Williams both suffered from depression but added, "I never could have expected this ending to his life." Last month, the star of "Mrs. Doubtfire," "Good Will Hunting" and "Good Morning, Vietnam" said he was re-entering a 12- step program after months of nonstop work. After he died, his publicist con- firmed he had suffered in recent weeks from depres- sion. It was one of several ef- forts over the years to over- come substance abuse. Sol- ace from those close to him was a different matter — even as Williams faced self- described financial pres- sures. Comedy club impresario Jamie Masada said he nick- named Williams the "Doc- tor of Soul" because his irre- sistible humor could make people forget their prob- lems. How Williams coped with his own woes, or that he had any, remained a mystery, Masada said. "Robin always had this mask on. I could never tell that he was depressed. He had such high energy, al- ways," said the owner of the famed Laugh Factory clubs. Williams was in fine form last year during his U.S. concert tour with Steinberg, in which Stein- berg served as interviewer and partner-in-laughs for his friend. Their venture stemmed from a benefit the pair had done for the Cleve- land Clinic. "He seemed a little mel- lower," said Steinberg, add- ing that there was never any drug or alcohol use by Williams during the tour which, while grueling, was a success. Cinematographer John Bailey, who worked with Williams on the indepen- dent film "The Angriest Man in Brooklyn" in 2012, said the role he played, of a difficult, terminally ill man, was revealing. It "gets to that sort of really dark humor that he had, which is just below the surface. In this film it's right there. People didn't really understand it. They didn't want to accept that part. It's a significant part of his genius." Whatever distress he was feeling, Williams was invariably charming and professional, whether work- ing for pay or charity, oth- ers said. On the set of his 2013- 14 CBS comedy, "The Crazy Ones," Williams' favor- ite word was "wonderful!" said series executive pro- ducer Dean Lorey, who also recalled his kindness toward Lorey's 16-year-old son on set. COMEDIAN, ACTOR Comedian'spublicjoy,privatepain FILE-ThisApril6,2008filephotoshowsactor-comedianRobinWilliamsspeakson stage at the "Idol Gives Back" fundraising special of "American Idol" in Los Angeles. Williams, whose free-form comedy and adept impressions dazzled audiences for decades, has died in an apparent suicide. He was 63. The Marin County Sheriffís Office said Williams was pronounced dead at his home in California on Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. The sheriffís office said a preliminary investigation showed the cause of death to be a suicide due to asphyxia. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File) HUY MACH - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Lesley McSpadden, le , is comforted by her husband, Louis Head, a er her 18-year-old son, Michael Brown was shot and killed by police. By Alan Scher Zagier The Associated Press FERGUSON, MO. The po- lice chief of a St. Louis sub- urb rocked by racial un- rest since a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager to death said Wednesday he won't be pressured into publicly identifying the officer de- spite mounting demands from clergy, protesters and even hackers. Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson, who has been the public face of the city torn by Saturday's death of 18-year-old Mi- chael Brown, told report- ers the St. Louis County in- vestigation of the shooting could take weeks to com- plete. In the meantime, he said, his department wel- comes Justice Department training on racial rela- tions in the suburb, where two-thirds of the 21,000 residents are black while all but three of the police force's 53 officers are white. "Unfortunately, an un- dertow (of racial unrest) has bubbled to the sur- face," said Jackson. "Race relations is the top priority right now." The mystery of the offi- cer's identity has fanned the discord, with Jackson arguing that revealing that detail could bring retribu- tion to the officer whose life since Saturday has been countlessly threatened. But civil rights activists and the attorney for Brown's family, all pressing for calm amid nights of unrest since Brown's death, counter that knowing the officer's name may help the area to heal, allowing the National As- sociation for the Advance- ment of Colored People and others to dig into the offi- cer's background for any prior brutality. "We don't want anyone's life threatened. If someone like this officer is killed, then there is no justice," said John Gaskin III of St. Louis County's NAACP chapter. Police have said the shooting happened after an officer encountered 18-year- old Michael Brown and an- other man on the street. They say one of the men pushed the officer into his squad car, then physically assaulted him in the vehi- cle and struggled with the officer over the officer's weapon. At least one shot was fired inside the car. The struggle then spilled onto the street, where Brown was shot multiple times. In their initial news confer- ence about the shooting, po- lice didn't specify whether Brown was the person who scuffled with the officer in the car and have refused to clarify their account. Dorian Johnson, who says he was with Brown when the shooting hap- pened, has told a much dif- ferent story. He has told media outlets that the offi- cer ordered them out of the street, then tried to open his door so close to the men that it "ricocheted" back, apparently upsetting the officer. Johnson says the officer grabbed his friend's neck, then tried to pull him into the car before bran- dishing his weapon and firing. Police won't name officer who killed teen MISSOURI By Ellen Knickmeyer The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Robin Williams was everywhere in San Francisco, it seemed, as he made a place for him- self in the everyday fabric of a city where he once said he passed for normal. The comedian was there to usher a few fellow inhab- itants of the Bay Area into life — visiting a pediatric ward, unheralded, each year on Christmas Day to welcome newborns to the world. He also ushered friends out of life— delivering a boisterous eulogy for an iconic local journalist known as Mr. San Fran- cisco, musing on heaven as a nice bar in the city with a dry martini. In between, Williams had turned out to cheer ev- erything from the Giants to the opening of a local pub- lic library. Bay Area peo- ple got used to seeing the actor at restaurants and stand-up clubs, even hand- ing out treats to children at his house, with a topi- ary dinosaur looming in the yard, at Halloween. After word of his appar- ent suicide this week at his home in Marin County, residents who had encoun- tered Williams recalled a comedian who didn't al- ways try to be funny but never failed to be gracious. In 1998, Dr. Carrie Chen and colleagues at the Uni- versity of California-San Francisco hospital had just delivered a premature baby on Christmas Day. "And then someone knocked at the door and said Robin Williams was there," Chen said. "He looked at this tiny baby, all the tubes and IVs coming out of him. And then he looked each and ev- ery one of us in the eye, and personally thanked us for being there on Christmas Day, and for being there for the baby," Chen recalled. "He made it all about us and not about him," she said. The only child of a well- off auto executive, Williams was born in Chicago and moved to Larkspur north of San Francisco with his family in the late 1960s. In a 1991 interview with an Oklahoma newspaper, Williams credited going to a "gestalt" Marin County high school — where he said a teacher one day shared that he had just taken LSD — with helping him discover comedy as a way to bridge the gap he felt between himself and others. Later, at the College of Marin, theater direc- tor James Dunn saw the genius in Williams when the young student riffed on stage one night, bring- ing classmates to tears of laughter. Dunn waked his wife when he got home. "You will not have believed what I have just seen," he told her. "This young man is going to be somebody one day." ROBIN WILLIAMS Bay Area made actor feel normal By Jack Gillum The Associated Press WASHINGTON The Na- tional Security Agency se- cretly planned a cyberwar- fare program that could automatically fire back at cyberattacks from foreign countries without any hu- man involvement, creat- ing the risk of accidentally starting a war, according to a new report based on interviews with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The program, code- named MonsterMind, would have let the mili- tary agency automate the process of "hunting for the beginnings" of a for- eign cyberattack, the re- port said. The software would be constantly on the lookout for digital "traffic patterns" that indicated known or suspected at- tacks, the report published this week by Wired maga- zine said. The report, part of a wide-ranging interview with Snowden in Mos- cow, described the Mon- sterMind program as "in the works" and went fur- ther than other programs that existed for decades. Without any human in- volvement, Snowden told the magazine, a counter- attack could be leveled at an innocent party — largely because initial at- tacks are often routed or diverted through other countries. "You could have some- one sitting in China, for example, making it appear that one of these attacks is originating in Russia. And then we end up shooting back at a Russian hospi- tal," Snowden said. "What happens next?" MONSTERMIND Report: NSA eyed preset strikes in cyberattacks The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS A series of small underground trans- former explosions rocked downtown Indianapolis on Wednesday, sending brownish-gray smoke bil- lowing into the streets and forcing evacuations from nearby buildings. The explosions about 1:30 p.m. outside the Cir- cle Centre shopping and entertainment mall rat- tled windows and sent po- lice officers rushing into the area to evacuate work- ers and other onlookers to a safe distance away, Indi- anapolis Fire Department Capt. Rita Reith said. No one was injured. "It was just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, and then they cleared the entire block," Mark Neyland, an opera- tions manager for the In- diana Housing and Com- munity Development Authority, told The Indi- anapolis Star. The agency has its offices near the site of the explosions. Bruce Plott, a con- struction worker who was nearby, said he heard what sounded like some- one banging on alumi- num garbage cans as he walked down some stairs around the corner from where the explosions oc- curred. 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