Kids can be evil at any age. As a teacher, and this will sound horrible because it is, I think to myself, "I am going to read about this student on the front page of the paper one day and it isn't going to be good." Right now I have about 15 former student in jail for murder or attempted murder charges.
Why are kids like this? Some are born this way. Others learn the behavior. The suspect in this case was turned in by his own mother last night. My guess is that although she did the best she could with him there is just something about him that is just not right.
Mental health care is not important to our country. Would this suspect, or Susupect A in the movie theatre shootings have gotten to this point if we had better mental health care? I don't know. Did either of these monsters show signs they were capable of such horrific crimes when they were younger? If so, did anyone ever try to get mental help for them? When we see a child that we think to ouselves we are going to read about one day, parents often ignore the warning signs we see ( and they see as well), or put their heads in the sand because they don't want to deal with it. How many serial killers could have been stopped before they even started? This creep was probably on his way to be a serial killer.
We blame violent movies, vidoe games, and music for many of these problems. But are those really the causes, or are these monsters born that way? We make excuses and don't look for the real causes or we don't look for the solutions.