"Cullen Mutrie was a POS with guns."
Yes, the protagonist was also labeled "evil" by the authorities and the media in the book/movie Fahrenheit 451, but the facts may paint a different picture (post 26). Time will hopefully tell.
Naw... From reading around on other forums, this guy wasn't a choir boy by any stretch. But he also wasn't some drug dealing gang banger that needed the heavy end of a hammer dropped on him either. If they'd left him alone, he would have gone on to pursuing his dream of becoming a firefighter, failing, and ending up occupying a trailer park somewhere to live out his life in relative obscurity.
Just our weekly cluster-f*ck from the ongoing and illegal "war on drugs".