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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But why would he bring a gun to a house that he wasn't allowed to go to in the middle of the night? Who cares about the altercation? He knew he wasn't allowed there and so did the parents.[/quote]

He was not mentally well.  Maybe he brought the gun as a means to compel the girl to go with him ("If you don't talk to me, I'm going to shoot myself right here on your lawn", "If you don't leave with me, I'm going to shoot myself right here in your bedroom").  Then the parents walked in and all hell broke loose.[/quote]

If a boy like that was still in my house at 4:00 AM, I'd be in an altercation as well. Why are you not blaming the parents and child who enabled all of this?[/quote]

The boy snuck into the house with the help of his girlfriend roughly an hour before the shooting.  I don't know why the girl let him into her room but clearly she felt conflicted over this parental initiated split up with him and she did let him in.  The parents heard something in their daughter's bedroom, went to investigate and the boy shot them.  Not blaming the parents for what happened, but that is, in fact, what did happen.

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I don't see any of that being in conflict with what I said. The girl did not have rights to the house and she was known to be mentally unstable. She's slightly at fault for letting him in, but he knew he was not allowed. The Lorton parents knew he was not allowed there and knew what he had been up to. No excuse for them. Sorry.[/quote]

The Lorton parents should have been standing guard over their son because they had reason to believe that he might sneak out to see his girlfriend (he had done so before) and they were aware that the girlfriend's parents didn't approve of that?

Maybe they did check on the kid at 2am and saw that he was in bed.  They relaxed, went to bed and the next thing they knew the cops were telling them that he had been involved in a shooting.

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Well more will come out on the parents as the story unfolds, howeve[b]r I don't think checking on a kid like that at 2:00 am even if that did happen would be enough and they should have known that[/b]. There was a car involved (likely starting from their house) and a gun. Could be wrong on this, but it appears to be negligence on their part.[/quote]

Did the parents know that their son was dangerous?  It's very possible they didn't.  Many parents of 17 year old boys wouldn't stand guard over their sons to prevent them from seeing their girlfriends simply because the girl's parents didn't like them.  [/quote]

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