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Old 12-29-2010, 11:47 PM
 
Location: 53179
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Like a friend, family member, close acquaintance, colleague.etc?
I grew up with a guy that in his teens became a skinhead and at the age of 24 stabbed a guy to death .We were friends as children. I remember hanging out at his house and he came over to our house too. I also met him after he became a skinhead. I remember asking him why he chose to become a skinhead and he told me "because everybody else became Punks ( like a punk-rocker ) so he might as well become a skinhead"
His childhood could have been better, but still no excuse for his actions. There were no reason for it. He did not even have a reason to hate, really.
I bet it was pure group pressure. This was back in 1994 in Sweden and the Skinhead movement was pretty big back then.
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Old 12-30-2010, 12:28 PM
 
Location: Shelby County
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I played on the same soccer team as a guy who killed both of his foster parents. We played together for about 5 years and attended the same school, but we weren't that close. He ended up stabbing both parents to death and is now serving a life sentence. He was around 18yo at that time.

I have another friend, who I hung out with every week throughout college. After college, he started hanging out with a different crowd. One day, he was out with his new friends and an officer tried to pull them over. The group fired assault rifles at several police cars as they fled for miles. The entire group is now in jail, and I still wonder where he went wrong. None of the officers were injured (Thank God) but some vehicles were disabled.
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Old 12-30-2010, 12:41 PM
 
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My only sibling was beaten to death in his own living room by a trio of punks he had helped out in the past. They made off with his wallet, flat screen TV and a few other items. All caught and are now in prison. Had a neighbor chase his wife out into the middle of the street one afternoon and blew her head off after she told him she was filing for divorce. Shot her then sat down on the curb and waited for the police and boy oh boy did a whole bunch of police show up! Also sat on a jury during a murder trial. Little gangbanger was found guilty and sentenced to life in one of those comfy CA gray bar hotels...
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Old 12-31-2010, 09:43 PM
 
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I played on the same soccer team as a guy who killed both of his foster parents. We played together for about 5 years and attended the same school, but we weren't that close. He ended up stabbing both parents to death and is now serving a life sentence. He was around 18yo at that time.

I have another friend, who I hung out with every week throughout college. After college, he started hanging out with a different crowd. One day, he was out with his new friends and an officer tried to pull them over. The group fired assault rifles at several police cars as they fled for miles. The entire group is now in jail, and I still wonder where he went wrong. None of the officers were injured (Thank God) but some vehicles were disabled.


Do you live in Memphis?
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Old 12-31-2010, 10:07 PM
 
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In my school there were some kids whose parents died when the father committed murder/suicide. A classmate committed suicide the night senior grades cme out. A neighbor kid's father committed suicide. And, I knew someone who committed murder/suicide not too many years ago. No one will ever know why. Completely unexpected and very sad. I think such murder/suicides are the height of selfishness.
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Old 12-31-2010, 10:32 PM
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Location: The New England part of Ohio
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Yes actually, I do.
The younger brother of a friend of mine had the misfortune of returning to his upscale LI home while there was a robbery in progress. He was 18 and a senior in HS.
He found the door open and instead of fleeing, he went into the house to see what was going on.
He was ambushed and shot by the intruders. This was in the 80s.

Another friend of mine had a younger sister who was strangled to death by a hot tempered and violent boyfriend. They also lived in an up scale suburb. this was in the 90s

Neither of these victims were my "direct" friends, but I knew them because they were siblings of friends and we all attended the same JR SR High School.

That's as close as I have come and I hope that this never happens again.
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Old 01-01-2011, 03:24 PM
 
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Do you live in Memphis?
Yep.
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Old 01-01-2011, 03:52 PM
 
Location: Neither here nor there
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The parents of a former co-worker of mine were murdered. That's as close as I know about.

I had a sister who committed suicide with a gun. To this day my other sister believes she was murdered but I don't and never have.
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Old 01-01-2011, 11:24 PM
 
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Old 01-02-2011, 03:11 PM
 
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Come to think of it, I know someone (a former Seal and Vietnam vet) who once killed another guy in a bar fight. Not exactly murder....he broke the other guy's neck.
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