Agreed. There are a lot of people out there who have had tragedy in their lives. A lot of ghetto criminals witness crime and brutality and have parents who are gone or on drugs. We don’t let them off the hook because they have a legitimate sad story. This guy is not some good kid who snapped after seeing the horrors of war, although even that would not excuse murdering someone. Its a kid with a history of crime and anger issues who continued to have those issues and they ultimately ended in the real tragedy — the killing of an innocent person.