..."offs" his parents...and the motive is???
Probably something typical vis a vis these cases, like....they insisted he do chores, or....they didn't let him drive the Escalade....or they grounded him for being a brat and he couldn't hang out with his friends...
Here are my random thoughts...
...makes me proud to have grown up in a 900 square foot house with parents who made me do chores....where I thought getting a couple of new dresses from Sears for school was the most "huge deal"...To supplment my meager allowance, i.e., for extra money to buy candy and the occasional comic book, snaps and caps for my cap gun, I would return bottles, or search the chair my father sat in every night when he came home for spare change...I carried my supplies to school in a cigar box from my grandfather...started babysitting when I was 8....got my first "real" job at 12...was a straight-A student with supportive parents, not parents who micro-managed and did my projects for me...never owned a car until I was 27....had a bicycle instead, but bought my first house when I was 24...did every type of odd job you can think of in high school and college, from detassling corn to translating documents, to accompanying opera singers at the university for money, baked bread for a restaurant, babysat, tutored, you name it, I did it...
Mr. Allgood...I really appreciate all of the work you do to bring these cases to our attention and to provide brilliant commentary on them...sadly, I don't think this kid was "off his rocker" (it would actually be somewhat easier to deal with if he were) any more than the Menendez brothers or the Columbine killers....no, far from it...It's much scarier than that actually....Rather, I think that these are kids who are so spoiled and self-centered that they have no boundaries whatsoever...In other words they feel that they are entitled to, and will do anything they can to achieve a desired end...The proverbial "terrible two year old" with a gun...The kids with parents who want to be their friennndddsss out of some tremendous guilt they have, rather than their parents...(OK, I'm getting nauseous now, I have to stop...)
Scary ...my kids see kids like this from time-to-time, and are scared out of their minds by them...
...This rant is, of course, my opinion only...