[Cicero]

Well, on the one hand, it really is disturbing that the first thing they have to say is that they have NO IDEA why their son did this.

On the other hand, unless the kid was willing to accept medical help, there was absolutely nothing they could do to force him to seek it.

If they knew that he was making death threats and was going berserk on drugs and was worshipping a skull in the back yard, then possibly their one course of action would have been to tell the authorities. Or at least, NOT to pressure the sheriff to let him off.

Better to have the kid arrested than to let him get deeper and deeper into drugs and insanity. Drying out in jail is no fun, but it would have been better for all concerned than what happened. And what they should have feared would happen.

[jimbo123]

The parents have been lawyered up to protect their precious monster as well as the sheriff who had been protecting him over the past 3 years.

[the rifleman]

Fox News just presented an unconfirmed report that the father saw the son take a black bag from the trunk of the car had a few words with the boy then chased him, the kid out ran the father into the desert. This occurred just a few hours before the shooting. If the father new what the kid was planing and was unable to stop him yet didn't report him he's culpable. This is all unconfirmed and personally I hope untrue.