Kid kills family members with a .22

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911 call is creepy.
As his basis for wanting to commit murder, Evans ironically said that he didn’t like the negative attitudes people generally have. He also explained that his family was suffocating him and then said that he is “evil.“ The teen also admitted that ”this is really going to mess me up in the future.”

Among the details he shared during the call, Evans recounted how he convinced his 15-year-old sister to leave her room before the shooting.

“See, my sister, I told my sister that my mom needed her. She was in her room, and she came out of her room, and I, uh, I, I shot her,” he said. “She rolled down the stairs, and I shot her again. And then I went down, and I shot my mom about maybe three or four times.”

The teenager also has two other sisters who were unharmed in the incident — one who is away at college and another who lives across the street from the family home with his grandparents. His father, who also lived in the upscale home in a gated community, was away on business at the time.
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Re: Kid kills family members with a .22

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that's an increadible dispatcher. 20+ minutes on the phone. heck.

Kid's mother, "...was a teacher and assistant principal at Aledo Independent School District before retiring in 2004."

mom's and sis' obit:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dfw/ob ... =160314127
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dfw/ob ... =160314124

horrid.

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Dispassionate response to the murders he just committed and more concerned about how it will affect him, i.e. nightmares and "probably messing up his future". Definite symptoms of being a sociopath. I find it hard to believe that he's never done anything violent before. Usually cases like this try their hands at administrating their violent desires to pets or any other animals in the neighborhood.
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MilSurpFreak wrote:Dispassionate response to the murders he just committed and more concerned about how it will affect him, i.e. nightmares and "probably messing up his future". Definite symptoms of being a sociopath. I find it hard to believe that he's never done anything violent before. Usually cases like this try their hands at administrating their violent desires to pets or any other animals in the neighborhood.
That's probably why he was being home schooled. I suspect a fatal combination of denial and stonewalling.
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SwampGrouch wrote:
MilSurpFreak wrote:Dispassionate response to the murders he just committed and more concerned about how it will affect him, i.e. nightmares and "probably messing up his future". Definite symptoms of being a sociopath. I find it hard to believe that he's never done anything violent before. Usually cases like this try their hands at administrating their violent desires to pets or any other animals in the neighborhood.
That's probably why he was being home schooled. I suspect a fatal combination of denial and stonewalling.

Yeah, that seems like a reasonable deduction. If they had just accepted that their son had some obvious mental disabilities and had them assessed and treated professionally this disaster very well might never had occurred.
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MilSurpFreak wrote: Yeah, that seems like a reasonable deduction. If they had just accepted that their son had some obvious mental disabilities and had them assessed and treated professionally this disaster very well might never had occurred.
You know what they say... Takes a village to raise a child.

We tend to forget the responsibility our society plays in teaching/affecting the next generation. In this case, it sounds as if the parents were also fairly well screwed up by our society so what could they teach the kid about sanity or happiness?

Hyperconsumerism and other market-oriented behavior mods based upon the principles of lowering individual self-esteem, redirecting healthy sexuality or suppressing our basic urges for freedom and creative expression. Add to that the Big Pharma's need to push pills on our youth.

Sick kid? Yes, but merely a symptom of a larger society in turmoil.

Apologist? No, this and other f-ed up shootings should serve as a Paul Revere moment and rally us into Social Consciousness and Action.

Don't wish to sound merely critical but I hope folks here won't go back to sleep or just blame just the kid/parents in a vain attempt to say, "This can't happen to me or mine..."
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent." -Gandhi

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Man. So sad. Not sure that I'd point to the fact that he was being home-schooled as an example of the parents being aware that there was an issue though, both he and his sister were being homeschooled:

"Evans and his sister Mallory were being home-schooled. Evans had played on the golf team before withdrawing from Aledo High School in January. He played football in middle school."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/0 ... 43623.html

I think it's more indicative of the parents knowing there were issues is that he was pulled out in the middle of the year for the home schooling- I would bet that he had major issues or got in some serious trouble at school- which i'm sure will hit the news sometime soon.... Probably trying home-schooling and prayer instead of actually getting him the help he really needed.
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