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Subject: Some exclusive info on the Clackamas Mall shooting

Hey guys, I've been mostly lurking here for the past couple of days because I've been pretty shaken up by these shootings. I've seen you folks talking about 'mental health' and I felt it necessary to clear up a couple of facts about the shooter.

I first want to state that I wasn't going to talk about this at all on this forum, seeing as how it hit really close to home. But you guys do need to know the facts, so here goes.

A good portion of my family lives up in the Clackamas-Estacada Portland area of Oregon. Aunts, grandmothers, uncles, nieces, nephews, ect. I live in the central part of Oregon, near Bend, with most of my immediate family. We live about 3 hours away from Clackamas County. My sister moved up there this last summer and moved in with my aunt. They live about half a mile away from the town center, so when the shooting broke out, we were the first to know. All of my family are okay, thank God. When my aunt found out the name of the shooter, she flipped. The shooter, Jacob Roberts, and his family used to live right next door to her.

We were up in Portland yesterday, and my aunt and I got to talking, and she gave some details of what she knew of that family. That family was truly messed up. She said on many nights, she and the rest of the neighborhood could hear the family's mom screaming non stop at everyone. She went over to that house on one night to check on the kids (Jacob by this point was only 13 or 14). All the kids said they were fine, but child protective services should have hauled that mom off a long time ago. The kid would have probably passed any mental health check the government could administer, but his emotional state from his abusive family was a completely different story.

This shooting resulted from a horrific case of domestic violence, not games or TV or facebook.

So please people, love your neighbors as yourself, but especially your family. This can result if you don't. Don't blame guns, blame broken families. With the Connecticut shooting, who's class did he shoot? His mother's. He also shot his mother's substitute teacher, and his mother herself. Be a good family member.




Also, the mall opened its doors again yesterday, and I was in there for about an hour, and the atmosphere was bleak and depressed. It will probably be that way for a long, long time. I can't even imagine how the Newtown community is scarred.



[Edited on 12.15.2012 3:32 PM PST]

  • 12.15.2012 3:28 PM PDT
Subject: Some exclusive insight into the Clackamas Mall shooting

"If you want to test a man's character, give him power" -- Abraham Lincoln

Stopped reading when you made the dig at FOX

  • 12.15.2012 3:29 PM PDT


Posted by: ArchNinja64
Stopped reading when you made the dig at FOX
Wasn't trying to offend anyone, I'll get rid of it.

  • 12.15.2012 3:31 PM PDT