[Samwise]

I've been trying to follow this thread. Thank you for your information. It's about the only information we can trust. I don't know which is the most puzzling: the university president's remarks or the lack of media coverage. Did you contact that reporter who wanted to talk to your son's friends last night?

[PhiKapMom]

Talked to her this afternoon.

[Dane]

Below are some more quotes from hinnrich's father and brother, from his home town newspaper in Colorado.

“In hindsight, the handwriting was on the wall,” Joel Hinrichs Jr. said of his youngest son. “He was unhappy in his major (mechanical engineering). He had the energy of a young man, but he didn’t have the optimism. “He lived his life very privately. He was very bright. He was fascinated with technical information and subjects, but evidently did not pick up much confidence on his passage through childhood. He ran out of confidence last night.” Tom Hinrichs, 24, said his brother was lonely and frustrated. “I was surprised a bit by the details, but on the whole I was not surprised,” he said. “He’d always been fascinated with artillery. “He had real demons that were eating at him, and I told him some things I thought he needed to do, but he had such intense pride it didn’t register to him.” Joel III, who went by “Joe,” was the youngest of three boys and two girls. His father’s job as a software engineer brought the family to Colorado Springs from Illinois, about six years ago. His parents recently separated, and his mother, Elaine, also lives here.