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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: rangerrebew on February 11, 2020, 01:37:20 pm
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When Mom Read Her Son’s Diary, She Dialed 911. Now Her Son Is Going To Jail
By Alice Edwards - Updated February 8, 2020
One mother in Washington state is being hailed a hero after she read her son’s journals. Because the mother found that her boy had journaled his plans to murder innocent people at his school on the twenty-first anniversary of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, she turned him in to the police and stopped what could have been a mass shooting of unrivaled proportion.
As it happened, the mother of the College Place High School student saw the journal entries, which provided ample details as to how he was going to implement the mass shooting. Instead of protecting her would-be mass shooter son, the mother turned the boy into authorities and has been hailed as a hero for putting a stop to the massacre.
https://awm.com/when-mom-read-her-sons-diary-she-dialed-911-now-her-son-is-going-to-jail-2-2/
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Hopefully, the kid gets the psychiatric help he needs. He planned on killing mom and her boyfriend, too, and from the article sounds seriously troubled. It was unclear whether he actually had access to forearms, though.
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September, 2019, not news - https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/462122-washington-student-arrested-over-high-school-threat-after-being
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This is what good parents do, unlike the parents of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Dylan Roof. Etc.
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Hopefully, the kid gets the psychiatric help he needs. He planned on killing mom and her boyfriend, too, and from the article sounds seriously troubled. It was unclear whether he actually had access to forearms, though.
Sadly we have often learned that "troubled" people were ALREADY on the screens, of family, "mental health care EXPERTS, Law enforcement, BEFORE a violent event.
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Sadly we have often learned that "troubled" people were ALREADY on the screens, of family, "mental health care EXPERTS, Law enforcement, BEFORE a violent event.
Well, I did say 'what he needs'. If this sort of intervention is what it takes, well that's what it takes if other means were ineffective. I must note that homicidal/suicidal ideation have been associated with pharmaceuticals used in mood management, and seem to be either present or suddenly absent from the pharmacopeia of many mass shooting event perpetrators. (Just one more reason I think kids need mature person they can talk with to help sort their troubles out--a real friend--more than some of the alternatives hat only work 9 to 5. While drugs may help some, they seem to be an 'easy remedy', rather than a cure).
At least his mom was paying attention.