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[b]Unfortunately, it appears to me that the deceased woman's actions in the weeks prior to the shooting were a catalyst for what ultimately occurred.[/b]  The fault is entirely the boy's, of course, since he fired the gun but it is entirely probable that a different, less antagonistic approach by the mother with the daughter and her boyfriend would have meant that both of the deceased would be alive now.

As time goes on and this case moves to prosecution we will learn more background.  I will be interested in learning more about the dynamic between the two children.  Most of the posts assume that the boy was the dominant figure in the relationship and that could be because he has exhibited these preferences that are so horrible, which makes him an easy target.  But I wonder what compelled him to be in the house when she could just as easily have left the house?

All around it is a tragic incident and my heart breaks for the little boy who lost his parents in such a senseless act.  That poor child.[/quote]

+1.  My thought as well.

The boy was unstable.  [b]I think if you are dealing with someone who is unstable and may have a propensity for violence, you don't act the way she did.  You handle the situation quietly, maybe send your kid out of town for a while to get daughter away from the boy.  You don't embarrass and humiliate the unstable person. [/b] [/quote]

+1  As another poster said much further back in the thread, common sense dictates that you don't stick a stick into a hornets nest and start shaking it around.  The entire situation escalated rapidly when it should have been de-escalating.  When I read the paper the first day with the statement by the mom's mother about the "intervention" they staged and the letter to the school I thought "uh oh".  Those usually are not the best tactics to use when working with TWO (both the boy and girl) unstable and high risk children.  And, yes, I work with unstable and high risk children.[/quote]

Disgusting. You don't blame the mother for PROTECTING her daughter, you blame the shooter and his parents for giving him access to a GUN. 
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[b]You don't know that.  No one knows whether the mother was protecting the daughter or grandstanding, and it will take months before law enforcement can confirm whether the daughter helped plan the murder[/b].[/quote]

Precisely.  And how does anyone know where the gun came from?  I haven't seen that identified anywhere.  Don't make assumptions.

Currently people are laying blame entirely on the family of the young man who shot the gun yet no one posting here knows where it came from.  Frankly, it could have come from the girl's house.  Perhaps that is unlikely but we just don't know that either.

And as much as we can all abhor [b]both[/b] children's radical political and societal stances, since the girl apparently supported his views, and subsequent actions, it is clear that there were mistakes made on both sides in the management of the children's relationship and care.  Now two people are dead and one is critically injured.

There is a lot of one-sided postings making out one mom to be a saint and one apparently not but both characterizations seem unfair.  The one took some imprudent actions and steps, and the other, well, we just don't know.  Eventually it will all come out.  In the meantime, I am sure that the law enforcement staff and medical providers are doing the best they can to sort it out and we need to allow them the opportunity to do that.

It is scary that this happened and we all need to hope for the best outcome for that young boy who is now an orphan.  I really hope his parents had a Will and finances in good shape so that any additional trauma can be minimalized as he moves into his new normal.[/quote]

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