Posted on 08/04/2019 1:48:28 PM PDT by DFG
The father of the 21-year-old man arrested for the El Paso shooting massacre was a drug addict for almost 40 years and is now an energy healer who claims to have had visions of Jesus Christ and his dead grandmother, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Patrick Crusius allegedly killed at least 20 people and injured 26 on a gun rampage which began in a Walmart parking lot in El Paso, Texas on Saturday morning before he was arrested by police.
His father, Bryan Crusius, 63, revealed in a 2014 memoir details of the broken home his son grew up in, confessing to decades of drug and alcohol abuse that led to the breakup of both his first marriage and his 18-year relationship with the alleged shooters mother.
The book offers some insight into the mass shooters upbringing - but not what turned him into an apparently white supremacist-inspired multiple murderer who was cold-blooded enough to make sure he was taken alive.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
ROFL Thanks.
Adriana Quezada, 39, said she was in the womens clothing section of Walmart with her two children when she heard gunfire.
But I thought they were hits, like roof construction, she said of the shots.
Her 19-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son threw themselves to the ground, then ran out of the store through an emergency exit. They were not hurt, Quezada said.
She said she saw FOUR men, dressed in black, moving together firing guns indiscriminately. Police later said they believed the suspect, who was armed with a rifle, was the only shooter.
https://apnews.com/13545dd216ae4e7aa46c524b7ee4cbec
Re: The root cause of this and most other such incidents comes down to bad parenting.
I disagree.
There are less than two dozen public area mass shootings per year in the USA.
The shooters are a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of one percent of our population.
If bad parenting was the cause, we would have two dozen public area mass shootings EVERY day.
“Mass Shooting” has a very specific definition in the FBI Crime Statistics.
That definition explicitly excludes gang related shootings and domestic violence related shootings.
The minimum number of dead has been reduced at least once, and it is now set at three.
“Mass Shootings” typically take place in a public area, and, more often than not, the shooter does not personally know his victims.
Well, it is definitely true that no father is better than a really bad father. I’m proof of that too. I hope your youngest will be okay. My friend’s brother had stage 3 colorectal cancer and they managed to pull him through. 10 years so far.
His clinic will go belly up after this.
Thanks for sharing, and for your good wishes for my son. His doctor told him his prognosis is very good. He lives outside of Indianapolis. I live in NY State, and was there for his surgery in April, and stayed for another three weeks. Then he threw me out :-) He and his girlfriend got married while I was there, so knowing she is there with him sets my heart at rest. Thanks again.
Yup. That’s what I said.
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