Troubled
Today was a weird day. An 18 year old kid stabbed his grandparents, sister and another unidentified person outside his house not far from my school and work. Three of the victims were dead by the time the ambulance came and the last one died in the hospital a few hours later.
The guy was a patient that my mom saw for therapy occasionally and one of his victims (his own grandfather) was a patient of my father's. He had finally saved up to have his cataracts a month before.
That man had the privilege of functional vision for only a month before his own grandson stabbed him in the chest with a 5 inch knife.
This is so hard to deal with here. The town is in an uproar. This is a small, generally kind town that sees perhaps one murder ever 10 years or so. Never has something like this happened. 4 people, dead within hours. It is shocking and no one (including myself) seems to know how to deal with it.
I can't grieve personally because I had no direct association with they boy or his family, but the fact that I know people who knew them, that in a way I AM closely associated (more so than big city dwellers are), disturbs me greatly.
Why does this happen????
The guy was a patient that my mom saw for therapy occasionally and one of his victims (his own grandfather) was a patient of my father's. He had finally saved up to have his cataracts a month before.
That man had the privilege of functional vision for only a month before his own grandson stabbed him in the chest with a 5 inch knife.
This is so hard to deal with here. The town is in an uproar. This is a small, generally kind town that sees perhaps one murder ever 10 years or so. Never has something like this happened. 4 people, dead within hours. It is shocking and no one (including myself) seems to know how to deal with it.
I can't grieve personally because I had no direct association with they boy or his family, but the fact that I know people who knew them, that in a way I AM closely associated (more so than big city dwellers are), disturbs me greatly.
Why does this happen????