School Shooting in Washington State

The shooting surprised you, or the briefly on the news part?

Man, he was a good-looking kid, and apparently well-liked as well. Geez...I so hate that so many kids feel that something like this is the only option. :BH
 
The minimal coverage. Or maybe I wasn't paying attention. I have been in the bed sick most of the day.
 
I saw a lot of coverage on the news and updates on my phone. ML he apparently was well liked, Freshman homecoming king (prince?) happy go lucky kid (according to others) and then this. :'( It breaks my heart, but it is also scary too. How do you recognize someone in trouble when that was what he portrayed to the world? How could he had not felt he had friends to go to when he was so well liked?

Get better Madea.
 
You are correct - THERE ARE ALWAYS SIGNS. People either don't want to see them, don't have time to see them, refuse to believe what they see, etc. But they are ALWAYS there.

Bless his heart, and esp. bless those other kids' hearts.

Madea - I'm sorry you are sick...I have felt completely punk today myself. Laid around on the couch all day.

As to the media coverage - it''s kinda hard to squeeze in another school shooting in the middle of All Ebola Coverage All The Time.
 
Honestly what we see on Twitter, well it seems like a broken heart. The same as 100's of other boys and girls his age. Friends spoke out that they liked him and offered an ear. He was still himself on FB and Instagram, and how was anyone to know that his vents on Twitter would lead to what it did? He was not the typical shooter we look for since Columbine. He was a well liked popular kid that had his heart broke...who would think this would happen?

I do not think when we all vent here one of you will just snap and go off the deep end. I also do not think that of the teens I am around daily. I always make a point after an issue to tell them I am willing to chat if they need to, but I really do not see the "warning signs" in this situation, especially when people offered to talk and his overall behavior to those that observed him was normal. :(
 
As much as it pains me to type this... I'm gonna hafta go with Diva on this one.

Psychiatrists and psychologists will tell you that predicting violence in the mentally ill population is next to impossible.

Given that this young man showed no signs of mental illness, predicting this sudden outburst of violence is unlikely.
 
honeybunny said:
As much as it pains me to type this... I'm gonna hafta go with Diva on this one.

Psychiatrists and psychologists will tell you that predicting violence in the mentally ill population is next to impossible.

Given that this young man showed no signs of mental illness, predicting this sudden outburst of violence is unlikely.
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I agree here. This may be the first case where there were no overt signals. He had not been under any mental health care, he had no history of violence, he made no insane rantings or any violent threats on social media, and he was not known to his friends to be acting strange at all. It appears that he just snapped.

As for the tweets, he was a teenager and everything is emotional and dramatic. "It breaks me" is not a cry for help or a threat. There was a dispute/fight of some sort over a girl, and I see nothing that would raise a red flag that he was anywhere near the edge.
 
I'm not sure there was mental illness involved in this case, after all. From all indications, so far, this is a case where the kid snapped. I'm sure they are still investigating him, and his background.
 
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