Texas shooter's father wants his son seen as "a victim"

[gabosaurus]

This can be seen as either really sick and delusional or a father blinded by grief. I would lean toward the former.

https://apnews.com/70ba9b2e83194fbab...ign=SocialFlow

SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — A 17-year-old student accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Texas high school should be seen as a “victim” because he may have recently been bullied, causing him to lash out, his father said.

In a phone interview over the weekend with Greece’s Antenna TV, Antonios Pagourtzis said he wished he could have stopped the killing Friday at Santa Fe High School. His voice cracked as he described how he told police to let him inside the school so his son, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, could kill him instead. He said he suspects his son was under pressure, perhaps due to bullying.

“Something must have happened now, this last week,” he told the station. “Somebody probably came and hurt him, and since he was a solid boy, I don’t know what could have happened. I can’t say what happened. All I can say is what I suspect as a father.”

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Bullying is no excuse for gunning down 10 people in cold blood.

The father raised the kid. If the kid is victim of anything it's being a victim of a parent that raised a kid to be a cold blooded killer of innocent, unarmed people... and enjoying it.

[Gunny]

This can be seen as either really sick and delusional or a father blinded by grief. I would lean toward the former.

https://apnews.com/70ba9b2e83194fbab...ign=SocialFlow

THIS is why our kids are all f-d up in the head. Parents making excuses for bad behavior rather than teaching good behavior from the start that would preclude a lot of this BS.