Another family succumbs to despair

[hootinholler]

This happened literally around the corner from me.

"Quite frankly, this is the worst. It's just evil."


Police: Man kills wife, three young children, self
Originally published April 19, 2009

By Kate Leckie and Justin M. Palk
News-Post Staff

Middletown -- A 34-year-old CSX Railroad worker killed his wife and three young pajama-clad children before turning a shotgun on himself, the Frederick County Sheriff's Office said at a news conference Saturday afternoon.


How many families have succumbed to despair? How many more will there be?

-Hoot

[soothsayer]

1. The FAMILY didn't succumb to despair. The dad/hubby did.

[LeftinOH]

2. That seems less *despair* and more like one man with serious mental problems

..too bad his family had to die becaue of it.

[theHandpuppet]

4. Agreed.

And he not only shot and killed them, but butchered them with knives for good measure. One man with mental problems and apparently his solution was to slaughter his family in their beds, including the little children.

[pnutbutr]

3. selfish prick

decided that his family couldn't live without him so he killed them instead of dealing with his own problems. Don't try to paint this guy as a victim of despair or anything else. He's a selfish prick who killed his family, then himself and there is no excuse for it.

[theHandpuppet]

5. I've always wondered...

... why guys like this don't start with themselves first and leave everyone else out of it. But nooo... they've got to butcher the whole family first.

[ejpoeta]

6. why the hell do they feel the need to take the family with them!!! grrr.

but this is very sad state of affairs. how much worse can it get!!

[adamuu]

7. dispair?? that's not dispair that's selfishness

what, if this guy can't provide for them, no one else can? so they all have to die?