Posted on 01/13/2006 10:29:08 AM PST by devane617
I guess they shot the kid alone in the bathroom so that he wouldn't kill anyone.....
Maybe use something to make him pass out, filled the room with super-glue, locked the door and let him starve or kill himself. Seems so unnecessary to have killed this kid. The real story will come out in a few hours.
I feel for families with mentally ill children, unless the families are the direct cause of the mental illness. We don't know yet what this boy's family background is.
"Maybe use something to make him pass out, filled the room with super-glue, locked the door and let him starve or kill himself."
Super glue?
You forgot the sarcasm indicator, right?
I guess the school was killed. Not the kid.
I'm sure you're right.
I was indulging in a bit of dark humor brought on by:
"At one time he held the gun to his neck. "
That sucks. You really have to wonder about his real motives then.
I take exception to your second guessing of the decision made by these fine police officers to advance on that eighth grader. I'm sure it was a very stressful situation for everyone outside of that restroom. Each of those officers was going to have to do hours of paperwork before they were done for the day, regardless of how it all turned out. You can't blame them for doing everything they could to get the situation over with as quickly as possible so that they could get an early start on their weekend. Nobody wants to have to work overtime on a Friday, nobody.
I see his last note scrawled on the bathroom wall:
"I could have been a contender, I could have been somebody....."
Here in Washington State we had a case quite a while back, where a police officer was approached by a man, who if I remember right was completely nude or semi-nude...the police officer, I think got thrown off guard at the mans nudity and attempted to help him...the man then somehow got a hold of the police officers gun and killed him with it...
Now if the police officer had been more cautious and pulled his gun, and then it went off and shot the nude man, the police officer would have been blamed and probably sued...
But the police officer is dead, and I think that this man, who was mentally ill, is probably in an institution...
The police can sometimes overstep, but they have an extremely difficult job, and sometimes decisions are made in a split second...
It didn't say whether the gun was raised at them or at the boy though. In fact, it just said it was raised.
He was trying to kill himself. If he was going to kill someone, why not have killed the kid he threatened into a closet in the first place?
In some cases, yes. If I beat my son or daughter every day, raped him, etc, and he ended up killing somebody because one of his split personalities or the voices in his head told him so, you don't think I should be blamed in part for that? Give me a break.
As for the cops shooting him, the kid wanted to die anyways. He should be charged for possession of a handgun (granted a pellet gun), expelled from school, given psychological therapy, etc. That is if his intention was to kill himself and not others. If his primary intention was to kill someone else, then charge him for conspiracy to commit murder.
He'll certainly wish he was dead then. As for mental illness, suicide is considered a form of mental illness. You can be hospitalized for it. Also, the belief that he was going to commit suicide, when suicide among my age group (13-21) is higher than its ever been is believable. But I think its too soon to rule out that the kid was just going to kill himself.
After all, the dead, or dying, can't talk. In any case, if the guns were pointed at the cop, then the cop had the right to shoot to defend himself. But if the gun wasn't pointed at them, there was no threat and something should happen to the cop.
Its not the first time a Fl kid got shot up by a cop over something like this. Although, in that kids case, he was going to be charged with conspiracy to commit rape and conspiracy to commit murder, along with eight other teens.
It was a pellet gun. He was a 15 year old child. And I don't know anything about his family so I will refrain from commenting on what horrible parents they were until I know more. At this point I have nothing but sadness and sympathy for his family.
Police did the right thing.
Note to parents...............watch your kids. Don't bring anything to school, but homework and lunch.
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