It is truly a shame to lose a 16 year old this way. In a perfect world he would have had good role models and strived to be more than a successful armed robber. And I’m not being facetious.
“Die-ins not much of a way to make a livin . . .”—Harry Callahan
I was thinking that in a perfect world he would have had at least one parent who loved and cared for him enough to keep him out of that sort of life. The poor kid had no one.