Posted on 01/10/2011 6:51:58 PM PST by kristinn
Reporting from Tucson — The parents of Jared Lee Loughner, accused of shooting Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 other people, were huddled in seclusion in their Tucson home Monday night, his father crying and his mother so shaken she could not get out of bed, a neighbor told The Times.
As the sun was beginning to set Monday, Randy Loughner called his neighbor, retired gasoline truck driver Wayne Smith, 70, to ask him to get their mail. Smith, who is not particularly close to the Loughners, grabbed the mail and was invited inside.
"They're in there now," Smith said in a subsequent interview with The Times. "They're both in there crying. He's crying and hanging on to me and she's not even out of bed."
Smith described the Loughners as very private and said they knew few people on their street, although they had lived in the neighborhood since before Jared, 22, was born. He said Jared was their only child. Smith said Loughner's mother, Amy, had a good job with good retirement and pay, and Randy was a stay-at-home dad who liked to work on cars.
"He worshipped the boy," Smith said.
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All three wept together outside on Saturday. "We stood right out there and cried for an hour. I'm a softie," Smith said. "A man needs compassion. He's broken up about his son, but also about all those people who died."
Smith said the family is intensely private. "The best way I can describe it, they're like a mountain man," he said. "They want to be alone."
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Parents should share the blame. They and the sheriff knew he was nuts.
I have read that his father is a hothead and mom is a loyal liberal state employee.
If they were such great parents who cared about him so much, how come the did not see he was a whack job..he lived in their home..he had a tent outside their house where he would go pray to a SKULL..I’m supposed to believe they did not know that was going on..and just look at this guy’s mugshot..who smiles in a mugshot when your being charged with 6 counts of murder
Yes, that was a red flag to me....worshipping a child does not often make for a good outcome into adulthood.
Nodding.
Everyone knew he was nuts. Don’t place blame other than on him..
Hmmm. I have “neighbors” like this.
I hope that the parents of the shooter don’t expect any sympathy from me.I reserve that for the parents of the murdered 9 year old.
Worshiping requires that you blindly devote yourself to something and ignore all their failings. Just like most Obastard worshipers.
Denial runs deep. Maybe they were so busy worshiping the boy, they couldn’t bring themselves to admit he had flaws. I’m wondering if the parents are a bit nuts, themselves.
I speculate that this County-employee household pulled strings with the Sheriff to “protect” their son, and it backfired.
What struck me was the man in the story just learned the perp’s parents’ last name after being their neighbor for over 22 years. The USPS has made sure I know my neighbors’ last names with errant pieces of mail. LOL
Lived in the neighborhood for more than 22 years without getting to know any of their neighbors — and then raised an anti-social son ... Imagine that!
Sounds like an entire family of loons.
Now, LOWER MY TAXES.
They did indeed know that he was insane. They knew that he frightened his classmates so much he was expelled from community college. They knew he was walking around unmedicated. No one knew better than they did how detached he was from reality. But the bureaucrat and the house husband didn’t bother to raise the alarm.
You want to see some little girls who will never be satisfied with “ordinary” men just watch the previews of “Toddlers in Tiaras”.
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