I don’t think the feral Hogg is a puppet,a prop — I think Hogg is the guy who actually did the shooting. Laugh at me as you should, I’m just a nutty old lady probably getting senile.
My intuition tells me that Hogg was anti-Hispanic. Cruz had a Hispanic “Pride” Issue. There is word that Hogg and his buddies bullied and harassed him. I suspect that they used his Hispanic background as a subject of harassment. That was just the thing that hurt the most because Cruz for some reason rejected his Hispanic culture. It was also a bad time to bully him because Cruz had emotional problems with the breakup of his girlfriend. That breakup was well deserved because Cruz was “violent and abusive” toward her. What caused his violent behavior towards her? Did bullying cause him to take his emotional feelings out on his girlfriend? Did bulling cause him to break and cause the shooting? That story may come out in the trial.