I’m no lawyer or prosecutor but for me it’s not a crime of passion when you shoot someone and then take the time to go inside the house, get a rifle, and then come back out and execute the victims who are lying helpless in the street. That’s pre-meditated murder there. If he’d left it at shooting them with the handgun then the case could be made that it was a moment of passion. But if he’d left it at that maybe they’d still be alive. When he came back and executed them, well, the argument goes away. He was a psycho and unlike others here I’ll say it.
I called Spaide a crazy man earlier at least once. Now can you tell me why the Goys found it necessary to heap snow on his property and verbal abuse on his head? The prosecuter stated that’s what happened before the shooting began.
What happened to the Goys wasn’t right. But they were not good neighbors to Spaide that day. Do you really think Spaide would have killed them if they had been good neighbors to him that day?
To me, a "psycho" is someone who shoots people at random or shoots up a school full of kids.
This guy targeted two people who were antagonizing him, and that's it. That doesn't make it right ... but it doesn't mean he's nuts, either.