Oh yeah, we should not place any blame on the people who had responsibility for raising him for most of his life, and their lessons to him for any of his actions. No responsibility at all seems to be the modern parental motto. I am not trying to place full blame on them, but when your drug addicted pro-football thuggin son goes out and pop-s his girlfriend over some domestic dispute and then blows his braine out because he knows what he did was wrong and punishment is something this pansy couldn't deal with, perhaps somewhere back there was something that his parents could have done to avoid this. Some lesson was missed or not taught.
Do you have kids yet? I'm guessing you don't or that if you do, they're wee ones. Why? Because if you did, I think you'd understand that parents can only do so much to encourage a child in the direction he or she should go. My kids, both now 20-somethings, had minor scrapes with the law when they were teens, and I absolutely disavowed any responsibility then or now for their choices. I didn't teach or model what they did.
I don't understand either why some who choose suicide decide to take out their loved ones first, but there are many reasons ranging from fear that they won't be able to go on alone to punishing others.
I mean, you don't even know why this young man killed himself after murdering his girlfriend. You're assuming that he did it because he was too cowardly to face the legal music. You don't know any of this.
And none of us do and maybe never will. Here are some facts, though. His mother had moved in to help take care of the baby. Sounds generous to me. She's also the one who called the cops after Perkins (the girlfriend/mother of Zoey) was shot. Sounds responsible to me.
Neighbors reported Belcher peeling out in his Bentley. Imagine being 25 and driving a car like that...might skew your perceptions and inflate your ego a bit. The couple had been fighting a lot, and Belcher was furious that Perkins had gone out to a concert and not returned home until after 1 in the morning. I've read multiple accounts of her threatening to leave him, and this is a
classic domestic-violence scenario.
Anyway, a 3-month old baby has lost both her parents, an innocent woman is dead, and a 25-year old who clearly didn't have the maturity to handle the "slings and arrows" of ordinary life and its frustrations found a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
So maybe Belcher was a spoiled, immature brat. But you have just a whole lotta nerve sitting in judgment of this guy who was still just a kid and may have had substance-abuse/party problems. It's a tragedy all-around, but condemning the parents doesn't exactly make you look reasonable either.