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Tucson Shootings: Jared Lee Loughner's Parents Alone With Their Anguish
The Los Angeles Times ^ | Monday, January 10, 2011 | Sam Quinones

Posted on 01/10/2011 6:51:58 PM PST by kristinn

Reporting from Tucson — The parents of Jared Lee Loughner, accused of shooting Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 other people, were huddled in seclusion in their Tucson home Monday night, his father crying and his mother so shaken she could not get out of bed, a neighbor told The Times.

As the sun was beginning to set Monday, Randy Loughner called his neighbor, retired gasoline truck driver Wayne Smith, 70, to ask him to get their mail. Smith, who is not particularly close to the Loughners, grabbed the mail and was invited inside.

"They're in there now," Smith said in a subsequent interview with The Times. "They're both in there crying. He's crying and hanging on to me and she's not even out of bed."

Smith described the Loughners as very private and said they knew few people on their street, although they had lived in the neighborhood since before Jared, 22, was born. He said Jared was their only child. Smith said Loughner's mother, Amy, had a good job with good retirement and pay, and Randy was a stay-at-home dad who liked to work on cars.

"He worshipped the boy," Smith said.

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All three wept together outside on Saturday. "We stood right out there and cried for an hour. I'm a softie," Smith said. "A man needs compassion. He's broken up about his son, but also about all those people who died."

Smith said the family is intensely private. "The best way I can describe it, they're like a mountain man," he said. "They want to be alone."

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: amyloughner; gabriellegiffords; giffords; jaredloughner; loughner; loughnerfamily; mentalhealthsystem; mentalillness; randyloughner; schizophrenia
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1 posted on 01/10/2011 6:52:03 PM PST by kristinn
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“He worshipped the boy,” Smith said.

Parents should share the blame. They and the sheriff knew he was nuts.

2 posted on 01/10/2011 6:55:01 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: kristinn
Regardless what folk think, I feel a deep compassion for his folks. I feel real sad for them...what they must be going through right now....God please do what ever needs to be done to console them.
3 posted on 01/10/2011 6:56:55 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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I have read that his father is a hothead and mom is a loyal liberal state employee.


4 posted on 01/10/2011 6:56:55 PM PST by GeronL (How DARE you have an opinion!!)
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To: kristinn
I so not feel for them. Get out and make a statement. Jeffery Dahmer’s parents talked.
5 posted on 01/10/2011 6:57:04 PM PST by Bronzy (We Remembered In November.)
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To: kristinn

If they were such great parents who cared about him so much, how come the did not see he was a whack job..he lived in their home..he had a tent outside their house where he would go pray to a SKULL..I’m supposed to believe they did not know that was going on..and just look at this guy’s mugshot..who smiles in a mugshot when your being charged with 6 counts of murder


6 posted on 01/10/2011 6:57:06 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Jet Jaguar

Yes, that was a red flag to me....worshipping a child does not often make for a good outcome into adulthood.


7 posted on 01/10/2011 6:57:13 PM PST by goodnesswins (You deciding how to spend your health care $, thatÂ’s freedom. Govt deciding, thats a death panel)
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To: goodnesswins

Nodding.


8 posted on 01/10/2011 6:57:57 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar

Everyone knew he was nuts. Don’t place blame other than on him..


9 posted on 01/10/2011 6:58:34 PM PST by goseminoles
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To: kristinn

Hmmm. I have “neighbors” like this.


10 posted on 01/10/2011 6:58:41 PM PST by wideawake
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To: Jet Jaguar

I hope that the parents of the shooter don’t expect any sympathy from me.I reserve that for the parents of the murdered 9 year old.


11 posted on 01/10/2011 6:58:54 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Worshiping requires that you blindly devote yourself to something and ignore all their failings. Just like most Obastard worshipers.


12 posted on 01/10/2011 6:59:50 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Denial runs deep. Maybe they were so busy worshiping the boy, they couldn’t bring themselves to admit he had flaws. I’m wondering if the parents are a bit nuts, themselves.


13 posted on 01/10/2011 7:00:13 PM PST by stansblugrassgrl
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To: kristinn
Slobbering mentally degenerate incompetents who produced filthy evil degenerate spawn. F* 'em.
14 posted on 01/10/2011 7:00:36 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: kristinn

I speculate that this County-employee household pulled strings with the Sheriff to “protect” their son, and it backfired.


15 posted on 01/10/2011 7:01:46 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: goodnesswins

What struck me was the man in the story just learned the perp’s parents’ last name after being their neighbor for over 22 years. The USPS has made sure I know my neighbors’ last names with errant pieces of mail. LOL


16 posted on 01/10/2011 7:01:57 PM PST by mplsconservative (I stand with Israel.)
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To: kristinn

Lived in the neighborhood for more than 22 years without getting to know any of their neighbors — and then raised an anti-social son ... Imagine that!

Sounds like an entire family of loons.


17 posted on 01/10/2011 7:02:16 PM PST by hampdenkid
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OK Congress, I've grieved for all the people hurt in Arizona.

Now, LOWER MY TAXES.

18 posted on 01/10/2011 7:02:57 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: goseminoles

They did indeed know that he was insane. They knew that he frightened his classmates so much he was expelled from community college. They knew he was walking around unmedicated. No one knew better than they did how detached he was from reality. But the bureaucrat and the house husband didn’t bother to raise the alarm.


19 posted on 01/10/2011 7:03:27 PM PST by wideawake
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To: goodnesswins

You want to see some little girls who will never be satisfied with “ordinary” men just watch the previews of “Toddlers in Tiaras”.


20 posted on 01/10/2011 7:05:30 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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