Originally Posted by
FliesWay2Much
I know a fair amount about the Richmond area. There are PLENTY of night/graveyard employment opportunities that pay a lot more than a TSA clerk earns. For that matter, there are plenty of full-time day jobs for someone with a HS diploma. I would say that there is something amiss about a kid who graduated from HS with good grades and who couldn't find (or hold) a decent-paying full-time job in a state capital.
In terms of your conclusion about his personality and background, the only thing we have to go on his what the newspaper reported. All of his HS records and any juvenile court records would be sealed. And, of course, his TSA background investigation would have turned up nothing.
I too know a fair amount about the Richmond area, the jobs are not as readily available as you might think. As for the reason he was working where he was, there could be a whole slew of reasons - he could be working late night to help out with the family during the day, he could be working in order to get set for college, it could be that he wanted to get a foot in the federal system in order to move up in the future - we can only speculate. As for the record in HS, if I am not mistaken there are rules regarding Honor Roll and disciplinary records - I may be mistaken, but I seem to recall one of the first articles mentioning the Mother defending him indicated he was an Honor Roll student.
As far as the guy (or the Dad for that matter, remember, we only have the ones living to tell this story) being a hair trigger, that is not necessarily indicated in a domestic case that ends in this result. Many times a domestic that ends in a tragedy with this type of described story line will actually indicate that the person that pulled the trigger was actually someone with a very long fuse (or the anithesis of the description "hair trigger"). Someone that had endured abuse over an extended period of time without intervention or help - again, that is all supposition and reading tea leaves on my part, but I have seen similar situations previously that lead to those generalizations. I could be completely wrong, and this was a plan cooked up by the surviving family members in order to just plain old end this guy - we will have to wait until the case comes up, or some more information is released in order to find more of the actual truth.