Posted on 04/06/2021 2:11:51 PM PDT by Stravinsky
The two Texas brothers accused of slaughtering four family members before killing themselves said they easily got weapons because gun control is “a joke” — and were sent off the rails partly from watching TV’s “The Office.”
In a rambling 12-page note initially linked to his Instagram page, Farhan Towhid, 19, said that he and his 21-year-old brother, Tanvir Towhid, were united in manic depression and all-day TV watching sessions.
“The first and most important show we watched was ‘The Office’,” Farhan wrote in the note that started, “Hey everyone, I killed myself and my family.”
The Steve Carrell comedy was one of “four very important issues I encountered throughout my life,” Farhan claimed in the online note police confirmed to CBS DFW is linked to the gruesome bloodbath.
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“People say the finale makes up for it, which is a complete lie. Sure it was cute, but it doesn’t justify the last few s—y seasons we had to deal with,” he wrote, saying he had “a lot more I want to say but hey, life is short.”
“We kept watching until February 21, 2021. That’s the day my older brother came into my room with a proposition: if we can’t fix everything in a year, we’ll kill ourselves and our family,” he wrote of the show.
They soon changed that to just a month, with Farhan saying, “We eventually realized we were just biding our time. Waiting a year was way too long. Why not wait a month?” he said.
“The plan was simple. We get two guns. I take one and shoot my sister and grandma, while my brother kills our parents with the other. Then we take ourselves out,” he wrote.
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So the suicide note says both brothers had manic depression. Any corroboration of that, and were they were under “treatment”? This is a very sad turn of events for what appears from the outside to be a nice family; at the very least the little sister had done nothing to deserve execution. Not saying this is what happened here, but first cousin marriages seem to be a disastrous cultural pattern in “South Asia.”
What raid? When?
It was in Star Creek. I found several news articles that covered it. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/04/el-paso-shooting-suspect-neighborhood/1916943001/
Might have been his last known address, but he was a graduate of Plano High ... so he must have been shuffled between his mother’s home and his father’s home.
Congress needs to pass more Office Control laws.
GRIT is pretty good. Almost all old cowboy movies.
Probably would have endured less pain if they killed themselves before binge-watching it instead of after. Of just watch something entertaining instead like Better Off Ted.
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