After their son was arrested, the parents were taken into custody on outstanding warrants…
The sixteen year old planned mass shootings at schools all over town; acting on a tip, police found him at one of the schools, toting a backpack with a fully loaded gun.
The parents were reportedly present when the teen was taken into custody, and … they went back to the father’s home to take their son’s backpack full of ammunition and hid it in the mother’s home in an attempt to conceal it during the police investigation… [The] backpack … “held multiple high-capacity magazines and ammunition.”
Police say they interrupted another “Uvalde.”
But this story – career criminals enabling a son just on the verge of a mass shooting – will never rise above very local news coverage because it’s a real yawn. Something like it happens every day. Even if he’d carried out the killings uninterrupted, it might have made a few NYC papers. Certainly not the BBC.
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And… police didn’t check the criminal background of the parents when they first arrived to arrest the son?