Odd given a lawyer in the family
“Ian Mercer and Laurel Harper married in 1989, separating just 11 months later in 1990, according to divorce records. The couple officially divorced in 2006, after more than a decade of separation, citing irreconcilable differences. Mercer and Harper agreed to joint legal custody of Harper-Mercer.”
“She would go around knocking on doors,” said Rosario Lucumi, 51. “She would call him ‘baby’ all the time. I thought it was strange because he was an adult.” Lucumi said. Harper-Mercer, she added, “was always moving around ... it’s like he was always anxious or nervous.””
Autism spectrum
Odd that the attorney sister’s husband didn’t know they were married.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/01/umpqua-gunman-id-d-as-chris-harper-mercer.html
Gary Evans, 62, who was married to Mercer’s aunt, told The Daily Beast in a phone interview that when Mercer came into the world, his birth father was not in the picture.
“They were separated when I first met them, and I don’t believe they ever were married,” Evans said.
The father is Caucasian, Evans said, while Mercer’s mother, Laurel Harper, is black.
Laurel was the second-oldest of four sisters and was raised in Torrance in what Evans described as a “very upper-middle-class” household. When Evans married Laurel Harper’s sister Maribeth back in 1990, Mercer’s mom was just starting to become a nurse.
“I know she went from career to career and then settled on nursing,” he said. “She was working full-time and taking [nursing] classes part-time.”