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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]It bothers me that the suspect’s dad says his son revealed that he was being bullied and seemed paranoid, but was reluctant to disclose what he was paranoid about, they didn’t speak again for a month, and now, after his son shot 5 people and killed 3 of them, he’s saying his son could’ve called him instead? I feel like most parents would be doing some soul searching about all the things they should have done differently if their child was a mass shooter.[/quote]

From reading other articles, I had the sense the dad was not very involved at all with raising his son after the age of 5, and was not really a part of his son's life.  Not talking to his son for a month, when he thought his son was troubled, kind of confirms that the dad was not an active parent.  I read this article and felt like the dad wanted the limelight, but that's me being cynical.[/quote]

I read similar articles that indicated the dad was not involved really at all since the suspect was a small child. The suspect had problems getting along with kids (fights, transferring schools, etc) since elementary school. He also wasn’t able to get along with his mother and moved in with his grandmother senior year of high school. His time on the UVA football team as a walk-on was brief and did not overlap with the victims (according the the UVA athletic director press conference today).

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What? Articles I read shared that he lived with his father during high school and it was there in Petersburg that he thrived. His mother lived in Mosby Court, which if you are familiar with Richmond, isn't the best. How can you come to the conclusion that a father isn't involved in his life when he lived with him (and not his mother) during high school? Because he hadn't talked to his son in a few weeks, suddenly he abandoned him? Here we go with the serious prejudicial view of a black father who you allude to abandoning his child. Stop.[/quote]

He did not live with his father and eventually lived with his grandmother.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/14/christopher-darnell-jones-uva-gunman/

He spent his early years living in Richmond public housing complexes, where it was often too dangerous to play outside, the Richmond-Times Dispatch reported in a 2018 profile. At night, while his mother worked, Jones was sometimes responsible for feeding his three siblings, walking to nearby grocery stores to pick up ramen noodles or bologna. When he was 5, his parents divorced and his father left, a loss that he called “one of the most traumatic things that happened to me in my life.”
“When I went to school, people didn’t understand me,” Jones, then 18, said, telling a reporter that he attacked other children who bullied him for being smart, leading to suspensions and stints in alternative school.

When he reached sixth grade, his family moved to Varina, about 10 miles outside Richmond. There, he found mentors, especially through football, but his relationship with his mother fell apart.
In search of a “new start” in 2016, he moved to Petersburg, Va., to live with his grandmother Mary Jones. The Times-Dispatch story reported that over the next two years, mentors “helped him let go of his anger.”
“He always had strong goals. He was ambitious, but his anger simply got in the way,” one of those mentors, Xavier Richardson, said back then. “I try to help him understand that he has been able to succeed despite his obstacles, and he can thrive from them.”[/quote]

Jones Sr. said he separated from his wife and son when Jones Jr. was still a young boy. But when Jones Jr. stopped getting on with his mother, he moved in with Jones Sr. and his grandmother in Petersburg.

There, he played football for Petersburg High School and 'excelled', Jones Sr. said, telling the news outlet that he was 'everyone's friend.'

'Everybody loved Chris, and he had a movie star smile he would flash,' he said.

However, last time he spoke with his son, Jones Sr. said something was wrong. His son has seemed normal when they spoke. But the last time he visited, they just 'sat and talked.[/quote]

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