https://www.thestar.com/news/world/...ds-parents-who-worried-he-was-a-neo-nazi.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...9919905d3e1_story.html?utm_term=.452fdc14e971
IMPORTANT POINTS (paraphrases or direct quoting from news):
- occurred in Reston, Virginia
- mother and father are shot dead, male 17-year-old shooter is in critical condition in the hospital, charged with 2 counts of murder. Relatives and young children (incl. 10 year-old son) were in the house at the time of shooting
- mother: lawyer who ran elder-care business, served as a precinct captain for Obama's campaign
- father: PhD, worked at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- on Sunday, mother sent email to private school that the daughter and bf attend showing images from the bf's purported Twitter account: retweets praising Hitler, support of Nazi book burnings, calls for "white revolution", derogatory comments about Jews, an illustration of a man hanging from a noose beneath a gay slur, and a PM "ima run in there with my swastika armband right now" in response to a photo of a candy shop's dreidel display
- mother wrote in email that her daughter told her over the summer that the boyfriend was very good at history and that her daughter asked, "Did you know that Jews are partly to blame for WWII?". She believed the boyfriend was trying to indoctrinate the girl with white-supremacist ideas
- grandmother and friends said the girl spent hours on the phone with the boyfriend, often just listening to him talk
- mother asked on Facebook for WWII documentaries to watch together with daughter
- mother wrote in email that her daughter grew so upset in recent weeks when she told her to stop seeing the boyfriend that she refused to eat
- mother said to friends: "We can't allow her to see someone associated with Nazis. We don't associate with hate groups in our house"
- grandmother said the family staged an intervention with her granddaughter on Wednesday, taking her to the District of Columbia to a friend's house to try to persuade her to stay away from the boyfriend. There was anger, crying and a long discussion about the Nazis, she said, but the teenager eventually agreed it was in her best interests to end the relationship
- after daughter broke up with him, the mother texted the ex-bf's mother that he "was sneaking into our house at night ... and is an outspoken Neo Nazi. These things render any legal redemption void"
- parents heard sound from daughter's bedroom at 5AM, went to investigate, found the ex-bf in there. Father yelled at him to get out and never return. Ex-bf pulled a gun and shot both parents before turning it on himself
TIMELINE
June: couple starts dating
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Sunday: mother sends email to private school principal with pics of Twitter account discovered on daughter's phone
Wednesday: family stages intervention with daughter, who had been on a hunger strike for a few weeks after being told to stop seeing bf
Thursday: mother sends text message to the ex-bf's mother, calling him "an outspoken Neo Nazi"
Friday: mother and father shot dead in home by ex-bf, in front of daughter, ex-bf taken to hospital
Saturday: ex-bf charged with two counts of murder while in hospital
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...9919905d3e1_story.html?utm_term=.452fdc14e971
IMPORTANT POINTS (paraphrases or direct quoting from news):
- occurred in Reston, Virginia
- mother and father are shot dead, male 17-year-old shooter is in critical condition in the hospital, charged with 2 counts of murder. Relatives and young children (incl. 10 year-old son) were in the house at the time of shooting
- mother: lawyer who ran elder-care business, served as a precinct captain for Obama's campaign
- father: PhD, worked at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- on Sunday, mother sent email to private school that the daughter and bf attend showing images from the bf's purported Twitter account: retweets praising Hitler, support of Nazi book burnings, calls for "white revolution", derogatory comments about Jews, an illustration of a man hanging from a noose beneath a gay slur, and a PM "ima run in there with my swastika armband right now" in response to a photo of a candy shop's dreidel display
- mother wrote in email that her daughter told her over the summer that the boyfriend was very good at history and that her daughter asked, "Did you know that Jews are partly to blame for WWII?". She believed the boyfriend was trying to indoctrinate the girl with white-supremacist ideas
- grandmother and friends said the girl spent hours on the phone with the boyfriend, often just listening to him talk
- mother asked on Facebook for WWII documentaries to watch together with daughter
- mother wrote in email that her daughter grew so upset in recent weeks when she told her to stop seeing the boyfriend that she refused to eat
- mother said to friends: "We can't allow her to see someone associated with Nazis. We don't associate with hate groups in our house"
- grandmother said the family staged an intervention with her granddaughter on Wednesday, taking her to the District of Columbia to a friend's house to try to persuade her to stay away from the boyfriend. There was anger, crying and a long discussion about the Nazis, she said, but the teenager eventually agreed it was in her best interests to end the relationship
- after daughter broke up with him, the mother texted the ex-bf's mother that he "was sneaking into our house at night ... and is an outspoken Neo Nazi. These things render any legal redemption void"
- parents heard sound from daughter's bedroom at 5AM, went to investigate, found the ex-bf in there. Father yelled at him to get out and never return. Ex-bf pulled a gun and shot both parents before turning it on himself
TIMELINE
June: couple starts dating
---
Sunday: mother sends email to private school principal with pics of Twitter account discovered on daughter's phone
Wednesday: family stages intervention with daughter, who had been on a hunger strike for a few weeks after being told to stop seeing bf
Thursday: mother sends text message to the ex-bf's mother, calling him "an outspoken Neo Nazi"
Friday: mother and father shot dead in home by ex-bf, in front of daughter, ex-bf taken to hospital
Saturday: ex-bf charged with two counts of murder while in hospital
