"He was a good boy. A victim."
And sensitive and coddled.
>>Former neighbors in Torrance, a city near Los Angeles, said Mr. Mercers mother had sought to protect him from all manner of neighborhood annoyances, from loud children and barking dogs to household pests. Once, neighbors said, she went door-to-door with a petition to get the landlord to exterminate cockroaches in her apartment, saying they bothered her son.
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She said, My son is dealing with some mental issues, and the roaches are really irritating him, Julia Winstead, 55, said. She said they were going to go stay in a motel. Until that time, I didnt know she had a son.
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