But BS is accused of killing three people. When you look at all of the red flags all he reads like a deranged and dangerous individual. Doxxing other gamers, threatening fellow students, the intense interest in playing war, military/camo, the photo with the gun in his mouth and so on.
In hindsight, yes. Knowing the context of his upbringing, yes. I agree that the homicide/suicide threats, gun in mouth photo, and talk about militias and totalitarian regimes and all that, were overlooked red flags.
However, I don't think that fellow gamers would have considered vulgar jokes about Hitler or jokes about killing people to be unusual. That's pretty standard. I'm not sure because I'm not a gamer, but I don't think even doxxing other gamers would be considered that unusual -- troll behavior, yes, but not that uncommon. Airsoft and violent video games are also common hobbies among teenagers these days, although he did seem to get way too into it.
Also, as far as we know, he didn't have any history of actual violence before this. Like if you think of the typical teenager with antisocial personality disorder or whatever, they're very violent from a young age, they're in and out of institutions, punishment has no effect on them, and they aren't scared of much, definitely not prison. There's no evidence any of that was the case here. All of his family members said he was very well-behaved, and his dad said that Bryer and Kam never got into fights or anything.
This seems more like a case of a person who had issues for a long time -- issues that were most likely ignored and untreated for many years, based on what we know -- but had it under control to some extent (as in, they still acted like an a-hole, but nothing too terrible, all things considered) and then something caused them to totally go off the rails and snap. Hopefully we will find out what that "something" was.
So I think saying that people should have known he was a "deranged and dangerous individual" seems like a bit of a stretch. I think people definitely knew he was troubled and weird, and should have taken certain signs more seriously. I don't think it's like those cases where we find out the person was reported a bunch of times to authorities like "yeah, this person is going to go out and shoot people." This was a very slow-moving crisis and I think it could have been prevented if just one or two things had changed, or been noticed.
SBM
LOL at your Canadian quip!
Would you happen to remember what the name of that Winnipeg funeral home was, by chance?
Thank you kindly (in true Canadian fashion)
I'll see if I can dig it up.