Mother Shoots Son, Self At Gun Range

WFTV-TV ^ | 4/6/2009 | Staff

[GovernmentShrinker]

A “release” for what? And how do they check for anything that isn’t on the NICS system?

[OKSooner]

""I noticed both of them were very anxious with each other. She kept getting very close to him and he was firing. She was almost over his shoulder,"

Anytime someone is acting squirrelly at the gun range, either call the rangemaster or blast off.

I would assume this place had a rangemaster...

[VeniVidiVici]

I would GUESS his mom was the one being antsy and he was probably trying to keep her from pestering him.

This link is from LiveLeak. It’s the range video of the shooting. It shows a little bit of interaction between mom, son and the guy in the next lane. It looks completely normal to me... until the son starts to shoot at his target. At that point, mom is standing behind him. She then reaches up around him, picks up another gun that’s laying in the tray on the firing line, points and fires.

It looks so out of place in comparison to the behavior before the shot that if you didn’t know what was going to happen you’d miss it. No struggles, no acting weird, etc.

Clip is tagged with a ‘graphic warning’. No blood, but you’ll see the shooting from beginning to end.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a9b_1239071171

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’ve done my civic duty.

I’m feeling positive about these races...but then, I believe in Miracles, LOL!

[inflorida]

More info out on this today: Suicide note and audio

[YoungHickey]

Mental health records. Here's the form.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Okay, I’ve never seen anything like that in Pennsylvania and the form does refer specifically to a NJ statue, so it’s not a national/federal thing; but it still only applies (as it says on the top of the form) to “commitment to a non-correctional institution for mental health reasons”. No other type of mental health records would be searched. So if you’ve been seeing a psychiatrist to discuss your suicidal or homicidal feelings, and taking medication to try to deal with those feelings, unless the psychiatrist deemed the problem severe enough to warrant committing you to a mental hospital, the information about your mental health problems wouldn’t be accessible to the police.