Posted on 02/15/2015 7:51:10 PM PST by PROCON
CORBIN, Ky. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy killed in a shootout Saturday with police in Maryland, prompted the search of his home over 500 miles away in Kentucky, where authorities found the bodies of his parents and younger sister.
Friends and relatives of Jason Hendrix were struggling to understand how the boy, a faithful churchgoer who was baptized just two months ago, could end up as the suspect in the slayings.
Hendrix, a Kentucky high school ROTC student and active church member, was angry at his parents for taking away his computer privileges when he's suspected of killing his family execution-style before fleeing to Maryland, where he died in a shootout with police, the town's police chief said Sunday.
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Why does this all seem familiar ?
I really doubt this was the sole bone of contention between this lad and these parents. It’s what our notoriously sloppy and biased news happened to note.
People leap so easily to hatred because they have “plum forgotten” what love even looks like.
I see this all around.
Wow! I read through all the posts in this thread and didn’t see one single post that hit on the problem.
It’s probably because most of us grew up before the Internet and computers in general.
Now picture this kid who is probably having a lot of social skill problems and gets in trouble. Then his parents take away the one thing he CAN relate to which keeps him grounded; at least in the way he knows how to do it. They take away his umbilical cord to the world he knows by depriving him of the Internet and his computer.
He might have been able to get by without the Internet for a while but not the Internet AND his computer which is how he relates to the world. He could have just played some video games and took his punishment by not having the social media to plug into for a while.
Why doesn’t everyone see this?
We are going to see a lot more of this kind of thing sadly.
Any kid under 20 years old has always had the Internet and probably always had a computer to interact with the world as HE or SHE knows it.
It may be somewhat of alien concept to us old fogies but for the young folk it is all they know.
Moral of the story: Never take away the one thing a young kid can relate to without bars being around them at the time.
The fact that he has a booking photo from a prior incident says trouble was brewing.
So you couldn't watch a snowy, flipping b/w image of "Howdy Doody" on the one channel you could receive back then. So what?
Regards,
What happened to taking responsibility and not passing the buck to drugs or computer games?
Moral of the story: Don’t be stupid and kill your parents and your sister.
There was something horribly wrong with the kid before he lost his computer privileges. Otherwise he wouldn’t have lost his computer privileges.
Nonsense. Antidepressants permanently change brain chemistry and have been long cited in acts of uncontrolled rage, extreme cruelty and suicidal depression. Read up on it, there's plenty of info available on this subject.
I wouldn’t be surprised.
Of course you’re right but it still doesn’t change how not to deal with kids addicted to the Internet and computers in general.
It’s an addiction like any other and is going to be much more of a problem as time goes on.
Think about it. Kids under 20 without social skills and don’t know how to deal with a problem without being able to Google it. Then that one thing is taken away...
Think about it...
But I did reference the Bradbury story, which predicts this incident by over 60 years.
The misuse of some modern antidepressants has egged on mental disorders rather than alleviating them. This is because depressions are complex things. “Anger turned inward” is one common description. And that opens up myriad questions about just why the anger and just why its target.
There is such a thing as over-sheltering, too.
Follow this through over the next few months.
I am betting SSRI.
Over 95% of these are because of SSRI.
Or, a case superficially treated with SSRI.
I bought my own TV at a garage sale.
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