Jake Evans, 17, tells 911 he shot and killed mother and sister

[Filiecs]

Why?
Probably because he just wanted to know what it was like to kill someone. He wanted to know what it would be like to enact upon his power to destroy the lives of others simply out of curiosity.

As he saw the ways in which his family members talked to others with joking insults, (which he says that he didn't like, but didn't exactly hate) that curiosity was constantly rekindling and festering until he finally decided to pull the trigger.

As for why he didn't run away?
He felt no need to. He had planned for months that this event was going to be the climax of his life. He probably felt no urge to continue doing anything else in society and so, after he accomplished his goal, he saw no reason to attempt to flee.

 

[DeltaEdge]

I feel bad for the kid. I wonder what his family life and life in general must have been like for him to do something like that. My guess is that he wasn't very close to anyone, and in isolation began to look at life more objectively/cosmically and didn't really see the relative value of human life that most people share.

 

[BreakfastMan]

Did he have mental problems?, I mean to just suddenly decide to murder your mother and sister just seems so random.

Vidya games. It's always vidya games. Or rap.

Or that darn heavy metals. The devil's music, I tells ya!

OT: Well, that is pretty damn sad. I wonder what mental condition he had that drove him to that?

 

[lRookiel]

Damn that's messed up. That is the most resilient phone operator I've ever seen O.O

His other sister was visiting the next day? Lucky escape I must say.

 

[Risingblade]

Aside from killing his mother and sister he seems like a nice kid :/

 

[Frankster]

Disturbing seems the right word to describing the situation.

Cant state much more then that without knowing more about kids background.

 

[Sylveria]

Why are people being so damning of him when they don't know his situation?
He probably has some kind of mental disorder.

Mental disorder or not.. two people are dead, he did it, and he sure doesn't seem remorseful of it. Whatever mental disorder he has, the world will be far safer with him dead or locked away forever.

 

[shrekfan246]

Did he have mental problems?, I mean to just suddenly decide to murder your mother and sister just seems so random.

Vidya games. It's always vidya games. Or rap.

I dunno, I've always heard that rock was the music of the Devil! He must have been possessed!

OT: Stories like this, especially like this one, are always a bit interesting. I wonder why he decided to just turn himself in? I wonder why he decided to do it in the first place? The rest of his family is probably going to be shaken to the core now. What a strange thing.

 

[Denamic]

The freakiest part was how calm he was. No one in their right mind could murder two family members, then call the police and remain as emotionless as him. There's definitely something wrong with him.

Shock can numb your emotional reactions.
I saw a traffic accident once, a rather violent one. There were three people in the car. One of them, a man, were dead or unconscious and dying, and the other, a woman, were screaming in pain for a few minutes until she died. The third luckily survived without significant injuries. I felt nothing at all. It wasn't until later that day that I started feeling sick.

But yes, you'd have to have mental issues to just shoot your family members unprovoked.

 

[krazykidd]

The scary thing is just how monotone he is on the phone.
He sounds as if he is ordering a pizza with so little emotion... it is seriously chilling. The way he just stays on the phone with the woman who is keeping her cool so well but inside is probably thinking; "This isn't just a normal day in the office."

The normal reaction would be to panic and flee wouldn't it?

Crimes like this just make me sit back and question 'evil'. I have always believed nobody is born evil but it is the environment and society that corrupts them. This kid lived well and said himself he wasn't angry with the two individuals so just why?

Wel considering how usually people call 911 in a frenzy and panic , this is actually a nice change of pace don't you think?

He lived in a "Luxurious gated community".
Was home schooled (so probably no bullies right?).
Just because he felt like it?
Did he have mental problems?, I mean to just suddenly decide to murder your mother and sister just seems so random.

Welp at least he can now look forward to decades in prison. Life for him just got a shitload more complicated.

So he moved from one prison to another? Also , i wonder , do people have more " sympathy " for people that turn themselves in?

OT: never having children . Ever .

 

[Cowabungaa]

I don't think he'll get the death penalty being only 17 but he does live in Texas..

I really hope he doesn't. Stranger things have happened (in Texas) though.

It'd be a shame indeed. A waste of one fine research subject.

 

[miketehmage]

This is all very saddening. A couple of years ago I may have been shouting for punishment but, it's clear that he is mentally ill.

I find it really depressing that people suffer from mental conditions like that. This is nothing less than a tragedy for both the boy and his family.

I guess all we can do is hope that in years to come we can detect mental illness earlier on in a persons life and cure it.

 

[Xan Krieger]

Hope he gets tried as an adult and put down like the scum he is.

 

[DrunkenMonkey]

Hope he gets tried as an adult and put down like the scum he is.

umm that's why there are laws that specifically prevent kids from being tried as adults, to prevent knee jerk reactions, such as yours. One year below the line is still one year below the line no matter the crime. Although I can understand your feelings very well.

This is all very saddening. A couple of years ago I may have been shouting for punishment but, it's clear that he is mentally ill.

I find it really depressing that people suffer from mental conditions like that. This is nothing less than a tragedy for both the boy and his family.

I guess all we can do is hope that in years to come we can detect mental illness earlier on in a persons life and cure it.

The most important factors to curing mental illness, is that the person has to understand that the actions are wrong or are some sort of problem, and that they want to get better. Anything else would be akin to electroshock therapy or lobotomy. I take it you mean some sort of wonder drug that rewires synapses to alter thought processes and ultimately cure the person of their illness, and not anything I mentioned above. In that case, if life were so easy and simple as that. Then again the first sentence is also incredible hard to come across in this life.

The scary thing is just how monotone he is on the phone.
He sounds as if he is ordering a pizza with so little emotion... it is seriously chilling. The way he just stays on the phone with the woman who is keeping her cool so well but inside is probably thinking; "This isn't just a normal day in the office."

The normal reaction would be to panic and flee wouldn't it?

Crimes like this just make me sit back and question 'evil'. I have always believed nobody is born evil but it is the environment and society that corrupts them. This kid lived well and said himself he wasn't angry with the two individuals so just why?

Wel considering how usually people call 911 in a frenzy and panic , this is actually a nice change of pace don't you think?

He lived in a "Luxurious gated community".
Was home schooled (so probably no bullies right?).
Just because he felt like it?
Did he have mental problems?, I mean to just suddenly decide to murder your mother and sister just seems so random.

Welp at least he can now look forward to decades in prison. Life for him just got a shitload more complicated.

So he moved from one prison to another? Also , i wonder , do people have more " sympathy " for people that turn themselves in?

OT: never having children . Ever .

A good rule of thumb for most people is "no remorse, no sympathy", just sayin

 

[DugMachine]

umm that's why there are laws that specifically prevent kids from being tried as adults, to prevent knee jerk reactions, such as yours. One year below the line is still one year below the line no matter the crime. Although I can understand your feelings very well.

You can be tried as an adult at 17 in Texas.

 

[DrunkenMonkey]

umm that's why there are laws that specifically prevent kids from being tried as adults, to prevent knee jerk reactions, such as yours. One year below the line is still one year below the line no matter the crime. Although I can understand your feelings very well.

You can be tried as an adult at 17 in Texas.

I was trying refer to the fact (but failed) that some people take a little while to grow up, that's why the adult age is 18 in most places. Or so I think. (not that the murderer we are discussing is somebody that can effectively grow up, its the type of thing that protects people who need that sort of protection, not sociopaths.)

 

[miketehmage]

The most important factor to curing mental illness, is that the person has to understand that the actions are wrong or are some sort of problem, and that they want to get better. Anything else would be akin to electroshock therapy or lobotomy. I take it you mean some sort of wonder drug that rewires synapses to alter thought processes and ultimately cure the person of their illness, and not anything I mentioned above. In that case, if life were so easy and simple as that. Then again the first sentence is also incredible hard to come across in this life.

Yeah it was really just wishful thinking. Hopes that one day medicine would be advanced enough to produce such a wonderdrug.


captcha: no way. FU captcha, nobody asked for your opinion.

 

[Something Amyss]

The "facts", as you call them, imply very vague things. Maybe he was bullied, maybe he had a bad relationship to his parents, etc. These things are all possible. I'm merely stating what I believe to have been the most likely course of events.

What you stated was that he was, as I see it, fucked up. You then cited a bunch of babble to back it up that has no meaning or bearing. If this is your idea of "most likely," you should probably invest in a better form of education. Phrenology, perhaps.

 

[Something Amyss]

Was home schooled (so probably no bullies right?).

Was homeschooled for about ten months. It was in January that he and his sister (the one he shot) were pulled out of school for full-time homeschooling. While they could have been at least partially homeschooled before, since they were in the general populace it's kind of wrong to say "no bullies," even if "probably" is thrown in as a qualifier. You know, since it's built on the faulty notion that he wasn't in a proper school where such things could happen.

This does raise a lot of questios, most notably why they were both pulled from school. It makes bullying less likely but not improbable, and it may speak to a much more serious issue than already accepted into fact.

Some of the reports are actually quoting his former schoolmates on this, something that you don't generally get if you're homeschooled.

 

[Toy Master Typhus]

What is the possibility that he hated his mom and sister for a reason? I mean I don't want to put words in anyone's mouth but how exactly was their relationship?