re: ““didn’t seem like a dangerous person at all … He was a pothead, a normal pothead. I couldn’t even imagine him being mad at someone, let alone hurting someone.”
The “friend” is probably a pothead too and his perception may be a bit “blurry”.
A “normal pothead” would have swiped a bag of chips from the local quickie-mart and sat in the woods eating them while giggling uncontrollably.
This guy was not a “normal” anything.