Did Omaha newspaper influence shooter????

[Omaha Steve]

These appeared in the Omaha World Herald last Sunday. Three days later everybody knows what happened.

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10195259

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10195280

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10195266

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10198519

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10195261

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=1219&u_sid=10198228

Starkweather.


Fifty years ago this weekend, Charles Starkweather abducted and killed Robert Colvert, a Lincoln gas station attendant. Two months and 10 murders later, Starkweather was in jail in Douglas, Wyo.

[1corona4u]

1. The kid was depressed...

Lost his job and girlfriend. I read his letter to his family. It was a personal choice he made, and I doubt it was influenced by outside sources.

[hlthe2b]

2. I agree... He felt worthless and hopeless...

and appeared to have a history of mental illness. I sincerely doubt that fame was much in the equation...

Untreated mental illness in an increasingly "throw-away" society....

[seemslikeadream]

3. You can not attribute this to just depression

If so there would be an incident like this every hour in this country

[1corona4u]

4. I can state my opinion anyway I want...

I read his letter, and it seems to me, this problem for him was much deeper, and went farther back than just the week before. You have to remember that everyone that is suicidal doesn't go shooting at people too. People deal with it differently. he just chose to do it this way. And, by the way, when it first broke on the news, I called it BEFORE they even said, who, and what it was about. It's on this board somewhere. So call it women's intuition, or whatever, but you don't have to be there, to know there.

Youth

Suicide is the fifth leading cause of death among those 5-14 years old.
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among those 15-24 years old.
Between the mid-1950s and the late 1970s, the suicide rate among U.S. males aged 15-24 more than tripled (from 6.3 per 100,000 in 1955 to 21.3 in 1977). Among females aged 15-24, the rate more than doubled during this period (from 2.0 to 5.2). The youth suicide rate generally leveled off during the 1980s and early 1990s, and since the mid-1990s has been steadily decreasing.
Among young people aged 10-14 years, the rate has doubled in the last two decades.
Between 1980-1996, the suicide rate for African-American males aged 15-19 has also doubled.
Risk factors for suicide among the young include suicidal thoughts, psychiatric disorders (such as depression, impulsive aggressive behavior, bipolar disorder, certain anxiety disorders), drug and/or alcohol abuse and previous suicide attempts, with the risk increased if there is situational stress and access to firearms.


http://www.afsp.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewpage&page_id=050fea9f-b064-4092-b1135c3a70de1fda

[terisan]

5. Thanks for your factual post. nt

[Strelnikov_]

6. Well, there is that old cop saying

"there is no such thing as concidence"

[Catherine Vincent]

7. Who knows?

He may have read an article a week and a half ago about a guy in Houston that walked up to this woman that worked at this mall in Houston and shot her and then killed himself. His last name was "Hawkins" too.