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[–] partial_accumen 83 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] JonsJava 46 points 3 months ago

Yeah, the article is fairly threadbare. You bring up some good questions, too.

[–] Sweetpeaches69 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The ol' Chris Chan special, ladies and gentlemen. How does this keep happening?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How does this keep happening?

It keeps happening because parenting can get legislated only so much. Inept and ineffective parenting isn’t exactly illegal if the child is relatively unharmed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think both this guy, and Chris-Chan had bigger issues than parenting...

[–] foggy 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Grief is a hell of a drug.

[–] cheese_greater 9 points 3 months ago

He was afraid of the becoming homeless part

[–] TheTechnician27 21 points 3 months ago (16 children)
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[–] Feathercrown 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He should've started with himself

[–] JonsJava 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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"

[–] Feathercrown 13 points 3 months ago

Yes, thank you

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

if only there was a good guy with a gun :(

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

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?

[–] Valmond 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

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?

[–] JonsJava 15 points 3 months ago

Your wording actually gives less info.

[–] JonsJava 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Re: your edit.

Fatally shot literally means "shot dead", but with a bigger word.

[–] Valmond 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I know. It's just that fatally shot is what policemen or "good guys" gets, a bad guy will get the "killed" headline. That's what I wanted to convey.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Like how an 18-21 year old woman that murders gets called a woman/adult in the headline, but if she's the victim, she's called a girl/young adult. (Similar with guys too.) News author or editor injecting bias (intentional or otherwise) into the article. That's always annoyed me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Fatally means dead.

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