Ghost guns, encrypted phones, his business... Maybe he was an international drug kingpin who shot the family for their computer so he could pay off his cartel creditors in time... Or maybe he was just a tech-savvy manchild whose parents indulged his every whim because he wowed them with what they saw as 'genius'.
Took me a sec to realize you meant the online fundraiser for the victims--at first, I had the terrible thought that it was for the shooter's parents!
Not a sign in sight, as far as my online sleuthing goes. If he was interested in 3D printing, it is likely that he was part of a sub-group devoted to the topic on the not-to-be-named-here website owned by Serena Williams' husband. However, unless his username was, you know, his actual name, there'd be no way to discern his identity. I don't use Discord, but that is another venue where he would've met like-minded, er, hobbyists, so if anyone is on Discord they might poke around there to see what they can find.
You don't need a 3d printer to make a ghost gun. One can buy all the parts you need in kit form at sites like this: Ghost Guns All the buyer needs to do is finish the pieces (sanding, bluing etc.) and assemble them.
While I would not suggest a fundraiser for them, I do think a certain degree of sympathy for the Sherwin parents is not out of place. In one morning out of absolutely nowhere, on what was supposed to be a happy family vacation, they not only lost their son but they found out he was a mass shooter who had killed an innocent family.
I had wondered if maybe AS had been planning to abduct Sara or Lula Schmidt at gunpoint and lead them silently into the woods for sexual assault, but he woke up the rest of the family in the process. It could have been the little boy who was the target as well, I suppose.
I'm sorry I do have to respectfully disagree. First of all emergencies can happen anytime so a cellphone is vey usefull in that instance. Some people may think others have cellphones and someone will call in that emergency but they may not also thinking someone else is calling and it tuns into a cycle of no help. Its happened even in public places. Recently there was a case of a young woman being sexually assaulted in the middle of the day in a public park with hundreds of people in that park and this is exacly what happened, sadly. The young woman's mother had to chase the suspect away. No one stepped in to help her. This kind of thing happens all the time. After being chased away the suspect was caught at his home by LE sometime later that day. As for the the father knocking on the bathroom stall door I still see it as unusual. Why was the father looking for the suspect in the first place? Let him come back to the tent and he can talk to him at that time. In the original post it didn't say there was an emergency that the father had to talk to the Sherwin right away, what was the rush to speak to him? Because its such a horrible incident that has happened a family is dead with a 9 year old surviving son these aspects have to be looked at nothing should be overlooked.
But the question arises why did he shoot three instead of two? I don't know how much daylight was at this time but he could see his victims if he shot all three of them and not two (his parents.) So IDK, although I haven't read all the threads yet so far so there could be a different set of circumstances that the family was killed under, sadly.
I'm sorry but no one would shoot accidentally in a full campground with people in it hitting a tent by doing so. Therefore it cannot be accidental. He possibly knew that LE or someone else with a firearm was going to come after him. That's why he ran away into the woods, he wasn't looking for a shootout. He probably coudn't imagine the outcome of what he had done so decided to go and finish himself off. He also probably knew he couldn't handle the aftermath of what he had just done and didn't want to got to prison for a second even.
Crime takes all kinds of makers. Not surprised.Some articles on injustice collectors.
Injustice Collecting
You can't let go of a grudge, says Nando Pelusi, Ph.D., because there are deep-seated emotional payoffs.www.psychologytoday.com
On Wound Collectors
What do many mass murderers have in common? Something many see but fail to recognize in advance.
Are They an 'Injustice Collector?'
Those of us who have grown up with an injustice collecting parent as well as those who are currently in a relationship with a person who's got a "bad" list that's endless, immediately recognize the Injustice Collector. Children who grow up with a parent that collects resentments have to resort...www.lisaescott.com
I doubt this would be the case that he accidentally shoots into the family's tent because he was playing with the gun. For a number of reasons. Its daylight and someone would have seen him wih the firearm aiming in a public space with tents so close to one another. That would have raised concerns with the other campers as to what this man was doing. Secondly media reports have stated what LE said occurred inside the tent we have no reaon to dispute what LE said. Thirdly the gun was in a secured container, if the parents were concerned something illtoward may happen due to their son's condition they would have secured it even more just to make sure that he wouldn't get the firearm. Only they could. I'm afraid this is a totally random senseless act of violence. As much as we don't want to believe it has to be accepted that there are individuals who want to carry out something like this. And the rest of us have to stand up and say "NO"!!!!
I agree with all of your answers to my thoughts. The knocking on the bathroom stall door is in context if something were troubling to the parents. In your instance your parents didn't have a troubling concern as perhaps in his case maybe they did. And for the rationale about Person B I fully agree with your perspective that's what I was trying to state but you said it more eloquently. Thank you.
