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"We just saw him coming up the dirt road, and we asked him where he was going. ... He looked suspicious. Asked him if he had a gun -- he said, 'yeah,' and we told him to throw it down and that we were calling the police," Gebhart said.

He'd just killed his father, was fleeing from police, was carrying a gun, and then just politely handed it over when asked?

What little detail is missing from this story?


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The Strib has a more balanced report:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4842144.html
Teen held in father's shooting death

Tracy Swartz, Star Tribune
June 23, 2004
ASKOV, MINN. -- For more than four hours Tuesday, authorities searched this small town and the surrounding woods and prairie of Pine County looking for a boy who allegedly shot and killed his father earlier in the morning.
For more than four hours, the word was out that a 15-year-old boy was on the run.
So when the teenager appeared, armed with a gun, near Hwy. 23 just south of town early Tuesday afternoon, the three men working at a nearby auto shop -- Matt Gebhart, Scott Jorgensen and Brian Volk -- knew what to do.
They got their guns.
Minutes later, they surrounded the boy and talked him into dropping the gun. Deputies arrived a short time later and arrested the boy, identified by acquaintances as Dallas Wright, in connection with the shooting of his father, Norman R. Wright Jr., 47, on the front lawn of the family's home.
[...]
Alex Askelin, 16, who lived near Dallas in Apple Valley, described him as "a good kid" who was always in a bit of trouble. He said Dallas ran away from home several times and once stole his mother's car and got into an accident. "He'd do something, get grounded for four months and then go straight and get grounded again," Askelin said. "He'd keep messing up."
Staff writer Richard Meryhew contributed to this report.
The writers can be reached at tswartz@startribune.com and richm@startribune.com.

The report doesn't mention it, but word among local police is that Gebhart, Jorgensen, and Volk had carry permits.

"We have no clue as to the causation of this," Pine County Chief Deputy Steve Ovick said.

Who says "causation"? Oh, never mind, this was his first time in the limelight and was trying out big words.

Well, folks, here's another article that doesn't report the whole story. WHY did the kid kill the dad? WHAT was the dad doing to cause (you know, the causality) the kid to go for the gun? WHERE or WHO might the kid have been running to or running away from other than the scene? And of course the getaway vehicle would be an evil SUV.