As the mother of teenagers, cases like this terrify me
I'm happy his sister will survive...although she will have to live with the memories...poor girl, i hope she gets major therapy to help her
I read dads statement on facebook, and although he is obviously devastated and in shock...it sounded like he was saying she loved her job and pets more than her family...just the way it was worded sounds odd to me :dunno:
I agree with you. If anything it may just indicate some strain. Whether it directly contributed to this is hard to say right now.
I can't really begin to speculate what happened here or why, but I do find it odd none of the MSM reports clarify how it was determined the son did this, as LE statements seem to leave no doubt he did. Did he confess? Was he covered in blood and still holding the weapon? Did grandma witness it? It will be interesting to see how things unfold.
There are a lot of reasons a kid will lash out at the family - prior abuses, learned behavior, feelings of isolation or neglect, bullying from an older sibling, anger at discipline or restrictions being set (like being told no to stay home from school), feeling abandoned (say he had expressed a problem he was having but felt no one was listening or helping him),and then, of course, there are mental disorders that can lead to violent rages. I don't believe video games or music or books make kids violent - the problems and tendencies already exist and it is the child that goes looking for ways to manifest those feelings in violent and dark things. JMO.
I read through all the news reports and found some additional details:
http://www.mailtribune.com/news/201...boy-accused-of-killing-mother-injuring-sister
"To my knowledge we don't have any indication that this young man has had a troubled past," O'Meara said.
Jim Holmes... has a blog in which he describes himself as a "work at home" father.
http://www.dailytidings.com/news/20170112/boy-12-pleads-not-guilty-to-murder
O'Meara on Wednesday confirmed that Jim Holmes was "out of the state" during the attack.
When asked about Holmes' demeanor when officers arrived, O'Meara said, "That's another piece that I'm not going to want to get into, because that strays into the area that the district attorney's going to be getting into very heavily, his state of mind at the time, and I don't want to stray into the (DA's) area."
O'Meara added that APD received two 9-1-1 calls from family members but declined to say who made the calls. "And I'm not being any more specific than that on purpose," he said.
I wonder if the attack was directed at mom and sister just got in the way or was it directed at both of them? Why was grandma spared?
