Posted on 10/14/2022 5:40:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The 15-year-old boy who police say carried out the rampage in Raleigh, North Carolina, that left five dead and two others injured was identified as the younger brother of one of the casualties, according to a report.
Austin Thompson was behind the deadly shooting spree in east Raleigh that began around 5 p.m. Thursday, local station WRAL reported, citing anonymous sources.
The 15-year-old’s brother, James Roger Thompson, a junior at Knightdale High School, was identified earlier as the youngest of the five deceased victims.
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I wondered that too.
I knew a family that had two sons, the oldest of whom was great and everybody loved him, while the younger clearly had problems of some kind and was a social misfit.
No reason...there weren’t even any of the usual reasons for being rejected by his peers - that is, he wasn’t overweight, didn’t have a speech impediment, wasn’t badly dressed and didn’t have any of the mannerisms that “normal” kids attack.
One day in class, he drew a picture of himself shooting up and bombing his school after he had lost a part in a play.
He lucked out because he had a devoted mother. The school called and gave her a chance to do something about it before they reported it to the police. She took him out of school that day and was going to send him to a boarding school that specialized in kids like this, but because she was a stay at home mom with a working husband, she decided to keep him at home.
I was always worried about her because I had a feeling that you never knew when this child was going to change and go off the rails and what might “trigger” that.
But it worked out and he’s now an adult, mildly dysfunctional but employed in a low-end job that he loves and is getting married soon.
I’m sure we’ll know more about this shooter soon, but it does sound as if his brother may have been a target.
So he used a “long-barrel shotgun” to commit the murders. Evil punk.
https://heavy.com/news/austin-thompson/
Glad everything is working out for the young man in the family you knew.
In this case... very sad for the brother who was killed with only 16 years on Earth and his whole life ahead of him.
Very tragic, and I honestly think it was possibly just the protection of Faith (the family is very devout) that saved the family I know.
I haven’t seen the boy for years, but it sounds like he’s settled down.
So here’s hoping.
For some reason I feel there was a change in his medications.
Satan stalks our land.
You can bet your life savings he was on psychotropic drugs, every damn one of them are!!
Thanks for the picture.
What does his shirt say?
what meds was he placed on
The upper part is the logo for UNDER ARMOR
I am slowly coming around to the argument that vaxxes of all sorts are screwing up kids. This stuff just didn’t happen in the 50s and 60s when we had MORE guns available.
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