[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.

[jimbo123]

http://www.fox8.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-us-congresswoman-shot,0,5766608,full.story

That morning, Jared Loughner’s father saw him take a black bag out of a car trunk, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik told the AP.

The father approached Loughner, and he mumbled something and took off running, Dupnik said. The father got in his truck and chased his son as he fled on foot...

[Cicero]

The Sheriff told that story about the black bag, on the basis of an interview with the father. Unfortunately the Sheriff is not reliable, but it seems likely that that’s what the father told him.

Did the father know what was in the black bag? Who knows? But why would he chase after the kid into the desert, unless he suspected something pretty bad?