Suspect's parents 'demonstrably upset,' neighbor says
Law enforcement officers visited the suspects home this morning and soon the parents were seen on the sidewalk of this quiet residential street, shoeless, speaking to them, said Stacey Czeck, who lives two doors down from the suspect’s family.
Czeck said the suspect’s father and a woman spoke with law enforcement for at least an hour. At one point, she could see the father sit down on the sidewalk and lower his head into his hands.
“He was demonstrably upset,” Czeck said. The woman, who also appeared upset, put her hand on the father’s head, she said.
She described the family as friendly, with the woman always riding a bike with a basket on it and waving hello. She described them as “family-oriented,” because she heard them on their back porch often. She saw the suspect from time to time but did not have interactions with them.
“In these situations, I think your mind always obviously — obviously — goes to the victims and the victims' families. But you know, for me, seeing that, my heart is also going out to them. They just lost their son.”
Our son went through a time he felt very violent and he told us so. We have no guns in our family and we were able to get him into a residential mental health program. You can believe we wondered, what if? What if we had guns? What if we couldn't get the support we had in law enforcement and the ER doctors and the residential program. Would we have been on the sidewalk with our heads in our hands. It could happen to any family on either side of the gun. We need to fix this!!