14-year-old boy murdered his entire family in cold blood

He killed them with absolute cold, one after the other, chasing them from one room to the other. He exterminated the whole family and so formed another mbadacre that convulses the United States. Another murder to agitate the country, with a gun, a 9-millimeter pistol that was in the house and used cruelly and atrociously despite his 14 years.

This happened in the rural town of Elkmont, in northern Alabama, on the Tennessee border, where no more than 500 people live. On Monday night, the emergency call from 911 was initiated by a teenager who, in a frightened and apparently panicked voice, explained that he was in the basement and had heard shots on the top floor of his house.

Upon arrival, the local police found Five people on the scene: three have already died and the other two have been seriously injured and died on arrival at the hospital. They were The father of the young man, the mother-in-law and the three brothers.

After four hours of interrogation, the teenager confessed: It is he who perpetrated the mbadacre. And it was he who helped find the murder weapon that he had thrown away from home. The authorities and investigators still could not explain what motivated the young man to kill his family.

The episode fuels the controversy over the huge proliferation of firearms in American homes, particularly in many southern states, such as Alabama. There is a long history of bloody episodes that in recent years have left their mark but have never given rise to serious consideration and a change of strategy in the so-called problem of arms control.

In 2018, five people, including a pregnant woman, were shot dead in Citronelle, in the south of the country. In 2012, five other people had died during a flight to Birmingham. In 2009, the most serious mbad murder in the history of Alabama goes back to Geneva County, where a 28-year-old man killed 10 people and wounded six others. , most of them familiar.

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