Man distraught over planned sale of late mother's home fatally shoots 4 family members and himself
Man distraught over planned sale of late mother's home fatally shoots 4 family members and himself
A New York man distraught that he was being forced to move from his late mother’s home shot and killed four of his family members before turning the gun on himself.
DeLucia, Jr., who worked as a local auto mechanic, was also a hoarder and the house was packed with tools and other car repair items, Fitzpatrick added.
At the extreme, could this be a "failure to launch" child, now 57 years old, that continued to live at home being provided for by mom unable or or unwilling to provide for themselves, and finally was being forced to provide for themselves at age? Did the family make overtures to get the man mental help for decades only to be rebuffed by mom or the murderer? Now that mom was gone, the siblings were forced to deal with it?
The article doesn't contain enough information to draw conclusions.
Yeah, the article is fairly threadbare. You bring up some good questions, too.
We (Americans) will never give up our guns, especially if you are working class.
We should continue to help fund to uphold our 2A rights.
Gun safety and training should be an option for everyone.
Grief is a hell of a drug.
He was afraid of the becoming homeless part
He should've started with himself
In before someone reports this - the person DID kill themselves, therefore this comment isn't advocating self-harm, so much as "I wish the harm had ONLY been to themselves"
Yes, thank you
if only there was a good guy with a gun :(
Using so-called “red flag” laws, local police could have potentially prevented DeLucia from obtaining a firearm if they were made aware he was dealing with mental health issues, Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said Monday.
And if we had a PreCrime unit like in Minority Report, crime would never happen. What a pointless addition to the article and pointless statement by useles police. These kinds of mental issue are rarely caught in time as the person "seems normal" until they don't. While long guns are insanely accessible and cheap in most states.
With the frequency that crazy errant behavior seems to occur with boomer-age people, I truly do wonder if there is a common thread. Leaded gas? Covid causing long-term brain damage from plugged blood vessels? Micro-plastics? Having to face the reality that their retirement is going to erode away because of the climate change they naively accelerated with their spoiled ass lives?
It's not 'fatally shooting', it's killing or murdering.
Edit: lowered the bodily functions over the life threshold using a portable metal ejecting tool.
Ok "shot dead", is that ok?
Your wording actually gives less info.
Re: your edit.
Fatally shot literally means "shot dead", but with a bigger word.
Fatally means dead.
Can't put my finger on it, but I feel we have a word for fatally shooting people.
I guess we're avoiding the word gun in titles now..
What term would you use that’s more accurate than ‘fatally shoots’? The term ‘murdered’ would simply obfuscate the method of killing.
No but if could have legal consequences. Murder is used both colloquially and legally, and accusing someone of being a murderer or committing murder if they have not been found guilty at trial could be considered, when issued by a news agency of any kind especially, as libel. That's why you see news agencies using the word "allegedly" all the time. Because legally speaking, they are innocent until proven guilty, even if they were caught red-handed.
You unable to see the word "shoot" in the title? I doubt it was a blow dart...erm.. oh wait. That's a gun too!
I don't think it was a crossbow, or long bow, or a water...damn it. Keep coming back to "gun".
If you can't discern that it's a gun from the title, there's not much to do.