Soldier charged with killing family in Alaska

[cory777]

Source: AP

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A 21-year-old soldier was indicted Thursday on charges he fatally shot his wife and infant daughter in their Anchorage apartment soon after he returned from Afghanistan.

Spc. Kip Lynch is accused in the April deaths of his 19-year-old wife, Racquell Lynch, and 8-month-old daughter, Kyirsta Lynch. He was indicted by a grand jury on first- and second-degree murder charges.

The bodies were found April 26 by an apartment manager and military police, who entered the unit after Kip Lynch missed duties at Fort Richardson Army Post.

Kip Lynch was found severely injured in another room of the home. Prosecutors say he turned the gun on himself after shooting his family.

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[Suich]

1. Oh, no! This is so sad...

:cry:

[boppers]

2. Two months after returning from one year in Afghanistan.

8 month old daughter.

Just horrible.

[TheMadMonk]

3. Interesting. Come back from a war zone and it's sympathy.

Just have life turn totally to shit (or feeling that regardless of reality) and they're a killer dad deserving only of contempt and harsh punishment.

And no this is not a defence of the vengeful parent, although much the same thought patterns (different emotions) running in an unbreakable loop to similar ends also drive them as well.

This sort of crime takes insanity of some sort no matter what way you look at it and no matter what the motivation.

I merely point out that it is interesting that we choose to treat some insanities as medical problems, and others only as aberations worthy only of contempt and the harshest of punishments. We even have the audacity to distinguish between triggers for the same insanity.

[boppers]

4. ?

[TheMadMonk]

5. This soldier fresh back from the warzone there is sympathy for his...

...circumstances.

The working stiff who merely has his whole world collapse around him, losing everything, who makes a "coward's exit" with his family is worthy of little but contempt for exactly the same crime.

Even the vengeful parents who kill to get back at the other parent get locked into the same type of self consuming spiral of negative thoughts in order to arrive at the psychotic break which lets them give themselves permission to act.

The emotions involved and the motivations differ, but while the basic mental processes and ultimate break with reality leading to murder are the same in all three cases, one merits sympathy, another contempt, and the last could only be lower if he raped the children first.

[boppers]

6. Oddly enough, I didn't have that reaction, but you make a good point.

My chain of thought was that he went from one high-pressure situation from another, and had only two months with his daughter, before losing it. Now he's destroyed at least 3 lives, and I can't help but wonder if things would have been different if he was returned to the US to learn to be a parent from the moment of birth, rather than being away for so long that he had very little time to bond with his child and her mother, after they went through the trans-formative process of birth and the rough months of the first year.