I just reread your reply. I am guessing you did not read the story. Bargo did not just pull out a gun and shoot. They, ALL of them beat the crap out of him first, he survived the first assault and tried to escape.
And there is NO excuse ever for perpetrating any act like this, it would seem to me that a person with an ounce of conscience would not even think to be involved in such a thing in the first place.
I most certainly did read the article. Show me in the linked article any statement that stated the plan was to kill him, or that the step-father knew the plan was to kill him before it occured.
What I gathered from the original article was that they were going to do a beat-down on the kid. That the gun didn't come out until after they beat him. Subsequent articles may state otherwise, but I hadn't read them at the time of my posts.
So, yes, I stand on my original assertions based on the original article.
Even the subsequent article only mentions the step-dad knew of the plan, but doesn't elaborate on what, exacly, the full plan was at the time. Which I still took to mean a beat-down. Not murder.
Please don't take me wrong. I'm not excusing any of them. They should all ride ol' Sparky. I'm just stating the potential logic of them not coming forward ahead of time.