[meadsjn]

Edmonson said Ahmed's parents were from Yemen, but he was a U.S. citizen and there was no indication that he had a political or religious motive.

Just baffling, I reckon. One mystery after another.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I think it is a requirement to always quickly deny any hint that a terrorist act had political or religious motives. Example headline, “There is no indication that there was any political or religious motive Boston Marathon bombing committed by two nonpolitical secular American citizen brothers”.