Texas school shooting suspect’s father Antonios Pagourtzis terrible words in defense of his son

A vigil for the victims of the shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas on Friday.
Credit - Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times

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I saw an MSNBC new article titled “Texas school shooting suspect’s father thinks he was bullied.” The father has some serious issues himself; one can’t help but to wonder what ways this man contributed to his son’s barbaric sin of shooting up a school.

This is not to say that the shooter himself is eliminated from his own responsibilities; but I imagine his upbringing by his father inability to see his son being a problem certainly has a role to play. If not at the minimum what he told reporters certainly is problematic in of itself.

Already at the beginning of the news article I think the direction seem negative

A 17-year-old student accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Texas high school should be seen as a “victim” because he may have recently been bullied, causing him to lash out, his father said.

Then the suspect’s father Antonios Pagourtzis stated the following:

“My son, to me, is not a criminal, he’s a victim”

But the truth is that his son Dimitrios Pagourtzis is a criminal; in his shooting rampage Dimitrios killed ten individuals...

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See also:

• Santa Fe School Shooting Victims: Here Are Their Stories (The New York Times)