I saw that, too, but imagine it would have been blasted over the news if he had a prior charge. Maybe he knew someone that had the problem or it could simply be he opposed kids getting labeled for “sexting”.
It’s probably just a coincidence … but I read on another website that there’s a retired FBI agent in Ft Worth, with the same last name, who was convicted in 2004 of molesting children over many years:
@MaineLonghorn, I believe I saw the roommate connected to your family on the news. He was sitting in the back of one of the SWAT vehicles and looked like he was about to throw up from fear.
It is more disturbing that these kids are so disturbed and no adults seem to know or if they are concerned nothing happens until someone dies or almost dies. That is disturbing.
In his taped “confession,” he called himself a psychopath and said he had been disturbed since he was a kid. He also said he regretted going to the FedEx store to ship the packages since the surveillance cameras there are what led the police to his identity.
A kid to anyone my age but yes…a legal adult and deranged. A shame that abnormalities weren’t identified earlier so he could potentially get help before he terrorized his town. My sympathies lie with his family and friends who are left with the “what if’s.”
If he was actually a psychopath, he wasn’t “deranged” in the sense that we usually conceive that to mean. And psychopaths are among the most difficult (if not impossible) to “help.” Psychopaths are notorious for being able to fool people and hide their innate lack of conscience, empathy, and ability to feel normal emotions like love, shame, etc. In fact, even though they cannot feel normal emotions, they have a spectacular ability to feign them.
It’s early in the game to know for sure if this young man was a psychopath as he allegedly claimed. But I wouldn’t be so quick to wonder why no one caught on to him. Not all psychopaths are obvious in their pathology.
I don’t think so. How could anyone have sympathy for someone who actualizes intent to kill another human being. In a religious sense you can forgive them somewhere down the line, but sympathy. I don’t think so.
Well, we all know that the scales of justice – and often public opinion – swing differently when the perpetrator is white and the victim black and vice versa…
That’s complete BS. There’s no sympathy for him at all! It was correctly pointed out that we really don’t know what was going on in his head. I don’t see that as sympathy. And it is certainly not a white/black thing. I didn’t see any sympathy for the white shooter in Florida.
He’s such a sweet guy. He befriended my son when S didn’t really have any other friends.