MI - Gunman opens fire at Central Michigan Univ., kills parents James Davis Sr. & Diva Davis, 2018

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...central-michigan-shooting-20180302-story.html
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People who knew the family called Davis Jr. “respectful” and “a good kid” and his parents “upstanding,” and said they saw no obvious signs of trouble with the teenager, who was a sophomore at the school in Mount Pleasant, Mich.
“He was a good kid, always,” said Deantre DeYoung, 20, who met Davis Jr. when they were high school freshmen at Plainfield South High School and had kept in touch. “You would never expect something like this to come from James.”
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I think his parents came there telling him instead of going on a Spring Break holiday they wanted him to get help and go to rehab.

I say this because I think I read that their son's car was impounded and was in the campus parking lot. If that is true he already had his own transportation home.

This case is so incredibly sad. He has murdered the very people who loved and cared about him the most.:(
 
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My morning tv news talked to some past high school and college friends of suspect. One male friend said Davis, Jr. had
a gun and mentioned it often, knew the campus was a gun free zone but said he'd never give it up.

Another hs friend said he was a "good kid", quiet.
A college friend said he had dropped all of his classes and stayed in his dorm rm. all day smoking weed. Lately had no plans and no ambitions.
Drugs, no doubt, played a part here. IMO.
 
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That's what it sounds like. Drug related. Parents probably found out he wasn't going to classes anymore and wanted to do something about it.
 
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jjenny said:
That's what it sounds like. Drug related. Parents probably found out he wasn't going to classes anymore and wanted to do something about it.
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Mental health related, IMO.......the drugs were his own method of self-medicating. It’s an effort on his part to sooth his racing & crazed mind.

I’d speculate that due to his age and gender, he was at the onset of schizophrenia/schizophreniform mental illness because that’s the reported onset group.

All moo
 
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People without underlying mental health issues can get hooked on drugs. So far reporting points to drug use and not necessarily mental health issues.
 
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It seems his family home was right behind the high school he'd attended for 3 yrs., then he suddenly switched to
Central HS for his senior year. I wonder if there were problems a few years back and that's why he switched schools.
MOO.
 
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jjenny said:
That's what it sounds like. Drug related. Parents probably found out he wasn't going to classes anymore and wanted to do something about it.
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ATasteOfHoney said:
Mental health related, IMO.......the drugs were his own method of self-medicating. It’s an effort on his part to sooth his racing & crazed mind.

I’d speculate that due to his age and gender, he was at the onset of schizophrenia/schizophreniform mental illness because that’s the reported onset group.

All moo
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Both are very possible and very possibly interlinked.

- From the Scientific American: "Research presented at a Berlin psychiatric conference shows teenage cannabis use hastens onset of schizophrenia in vulnerable individuals" (source)
- From Psychology Today: "One recent study done at Tel Aviv University found that when mice with a genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia were exposed to THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana, they showed schizophrenia-like effects, while mice without susceptibility did not." (source)
- Another article breaking down the Tel Aviv study referenced above from Science Daily
 
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jjenny said:
That's what it sounds like. Drug related. Parents probably found out he wasn't going to classes anymore and wanted to do something about it.
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And paid for it with their lives [emoji120][emoji22]


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enelram said:
It seems his family home was right behind the high school he'd attended for 3 yrs., then he suddenly switched to
Central HS for his senior year. I wonder if there were problems a few years back and that's why he switched schools.
MOO.
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Central (CMU) is not a high school. It’s a major Michigan University.


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Only4Justice said:
Central (CMU) is not a high school. It’s a major Michigan University.


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I was discussing his high schools in his home town of Plainfield, Illinois.
 
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enelram said:
I was discussing his high schools in his home town of Plainfield, Illinois.
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I’m sorry enelram. I missed that the high school had same name. Peace.


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enelram said:
Doubt that there was any scholarship. He played a little basketball in hs and ran track. Not a star AFAIK.
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College students are awarded academic and/or artistic scholarships, too. Not just sports.
 
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