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A 17-year-old wrote in a confession released Thursday that the horror movie remake of "Halloween" gave him the idea to kill his mother and sister.
Jake Evans is on trial for the Oct. 3 slayings of his 15-year-old sister, Mallory, and mother Jami in their upscale Aledo home. The confession was introduced as evidence.
In a four-page written confession to police hours after his arrest, Evans said he had watched the remake of "Halloween" three times earlier that week.
The 2007 Rob Zombie film is about a 10-year-old boy who murders several people and kills a number of others 15 years later.
While watching it, I was amazed at how at ease the boy was during the murders and how little remorse he had," Evans wrote. "Afterward, I was thinking to myself it would be the same for me when I kill someone."
Later, as his mother and sister watched the presidential debate that night, he said he "just sat in the living room thinking about how I was going to kill my family."
He wrote that he got a knife.
"I went back upstairs and kept pacing back and forth imagining killing Mallory," he said. "Thoughts of causing her pain kept entering my mind and were really bothering me. But then I'd think about the times she hurt my feelings."
He later knocked on her bedroom door and asked her to watch the comedy movie "Water Boy."
Then he changed his plans.
"After a while, I thought to myself that if I were to kill my mom and Mallory, I wouldn't want them to feel anything, so I decided to kill them both with the .22 revolver I stole from my Grandpa," he wrote.
He said he thought about it some more.
"I then spent probably over an hour walking nervously around the house thinking how life will never be the same and how I would never see them again," he wrote.
He said he knocked on sister's door again and told her their mother needed her.
"She came out and out of the corner of her eye she saw me pointing the gun at her," he said. "She thought I was joking and told me that I was freaking her out. I shot her in the back and then the head."
'Dreadful and terrifying'
He then went to the study and shot his mother three times.
"In shock, I ran to my room and was screaming at the top of my lungs that I am really messed up and that I killed my mom and sister," he wrote.
"As I emptied the shells on my bed, I heard noizes (sic) and realized that Mallory was still alive," he said. "While I loaded the gun back up, I was shouting that I was sorry and then ran as fast as I could to kill her. I made sure my mom was dead and shot her again in the head."
He said he placed the gun on the counter and called 911.
Sheriff's deputies found the bodies of his mother and sister and arrested him.
In the last lines of his confession, he wrote: "I know now though that I'm done with killing. It's the most dreadful and terrifying thing I will ever experience. And what happened last night will haunt me forever."
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Cant be the movies fault, it has to be the gun. Otherwise the ultrasmart left doesnt have a platform. Besides, hollywood gives millions to the left so they are going to get amnesty from any harm.
Obviously this is wrong. ALL the pros in Hollywood, along with liberal democrats have already stated that violent movies and violent games have nothing to do with violent people. Its law-abiding citizens with guns that are the problem (sarcasm).
Likely he was on meds - SSRI's causing de-personalization/de-realization - the same SSRI's that 90% of mass shooters are on (maybe more than 90% - medical records are sealed on those we don't know). Of course, as in most cases, medical records are sealed in this one. Nobody gets to ask that question. Big Pharma keeps raking it in - and the minions will argue about guns (completely missing the issue). Sad.
An eye for an eye...take him out in the street and shoot him! Do Not allow the libs to think he can be rehabilitated and cured. He made his decision, there was not insanity involved...DO NOT WASTE TAXPAYER MONEY KEEPING HIM LOCKED UP ONLY TO RELEASE HIM LATER WITH THE CHANCE HE WILL DO IT AGAIN! I dont give a damn how young he is,,,he is old enough to know the consequences of his actions!
You've broached a good subject, eazyray. We generally try criminals as adults at the age of 18 except under very rare circumstances. We may become legal adults at 18, but we form the basic ability to differentiate between right and wrong far earlier. By the time kids reach ages 10 to 13 they KNOW when they are being bad. Their gray area may be a little bigger but they KNOW things like killing or harming another is wrong. The law needs to define this age, and any past it who commit such acts as this young man did should be eligible for the death penalty.
Baloney! They used to say the Bible told them to do it. The kid's a freak and needs to be locked up. Charles Mason and his clan would probably use the same excuse today.
ha, the beatles made me do it.
What strikes me is that he looks (in the picture) like such a normal kid. You can't imagine him being capable of anything worse than ringing doorbells and running off.
Condolences to the family and friends of the victims of this crazy person. In my opinion, Grandpa screwed up here. Keep your guns where they won't get stolen! This might have turned out very differently if all the kid had was a knife.
I just want too throw up after reading this, don't even want to debate anything with anybody.
Agreed.
Ok Hollywood! that one is on you!... like Obama say Spread the blame...ops wealth
some say its the mentally psychotic, but just who is mentally psychotic if they have not been diagnosed.
as "more justice" points out, its the mentally psychotic, that cannot separate reality from lala land.
so, as an undiagnosed mentally psychotic kid plays his modern warfare games and watches his favorite slasher movie he may get confused and act out what he just seen.
think about that.
I believe you are confusing "psychopath" with "sociopath" or someone suffering from paranoid delusion.
i dont really think it matters, everyone even biden,obama and nra say mentally ill....that is saying anyone whith any type of mental illness. as for mentally psychotic, gentleman here named "more justice used that term . im just re-using his own term in response.
Agreed AgainstThese, just differentiating between the two conditions. That EITHER can alter a persons perception or reality, right, and wrong is a given.
agreed
Let's get something straight. He started thinking about killing them when he stole the gun from his grandfather. Is it possible movies like this can warp the thinking of certain young minds? Yes. At least the ones that ALREADY HAVE MENTAL ISSUES. Do I think they effect ALL young people? No, it's an excuse. Our society has seen horrific actions of late, kids and young adults killing others, and we are looking for SCAPEGOATS. No one wants to admit the root of these problems. THAT would mean TAKING RESPONSIBILITY, and God forbid THAT happen. While some kids do have legitimate mental and emotional problems the majority of these young killers simply grew up with horrible parents. I do not mean parents who beat them and abused them but just the OPPOSITE. People need to stop pandering to their childrens every whim, stop giving them every single little thing they want without teaching them to WORK for it, START teaching them that there are consequences to bad action, teach them to EARN instead of expecting things to be dropped in their lazy little laps. Are there other contributing factors? Yes. I am not foolish enough to believe that the problem will vanish if we start disciplining out kids. However it IS the best place to begin.
How about asking what drugs he was using. Ritalin? Adderol? Any other "control medication" VERY commonly prescribed to YOUNG BOYS as a means to control their behavior in class?
While these types of incidents do happen with girls, it is more often the boys that perpetrate these crimes. It is also more often that BOYS are drugged to control them.
Little boys can't be little boys more. Little boys have energy they aren't allowed to expend by running around, playing tag, on the monkey bars, playing dodge ball, even getting into "fights" that little boys get into. No.. if they display any signs of energy, drug them.
Can anyone tell me EXACTLY what these drugs do to a young mind still growing both emotionally and physically? Can anyone tell me what the LONG TERM effects of these drugs are, 5, 10, 15, 20 years AFTER use?
that's what i want to know,xd. in my research of the drugs they wanted to give my daughter to "calm her down" the long lasting effects were vital organ debilitating(serious deterioration of kidneys, spleen etc.). when in fact the only thing necessary to "improve" her condition was structure and discipline at her mothers house(was none,no bedtime,eat whenever,enforcement of room cleaning) and my house was the complete opposite. good doctors we have now,drug at first sight. and the other drug they wanted to give her was unecessary also,i found that three vitamin deficiencies were likely to blame,so i have to ask why her doctor didn't find that little tidbit of info?
xd, THAT is what should be looked into.just because the FDA and big pharma say somethings safe,does not mean it is.how many drug makers get sued later on after the side effects start to mount?MERK alone has been sued and fined numerous times for fudging results or just lying about effectivness.perscribing drugs to kids for any reason has become commonplace.and alot of the side effects state that they can cause anger and depression and thoughts of suicide.alot of arrows are pointing to this as a major major public safety issue.but money talks.this will be ignored, squashed, and totally ignored by all financially connected to,and guilty of shoving this crap down the throats of kids nationwide.
true, rbattle. we can't trust either one. FDA used to be good for america, but they are not trustworthy anymore. big pharma,there only agenda is selling.
The movie did not make him do it all by itself - these kinds of events have multiple complex causes and you can't make a sweeping judgment about films, the death penalty, or anything, based on one event. We as readers of one short article do not have enough information to know why this awful thing happened. Saying stuff like "typical American youth have no morals" only dilutes and ruins our abiility to work on huge complex problems like why a young seemingly healthy and lucky person would kill his family like this. Millions of people see violent movies and read violent books and things like that without ever considering murder. Rather than pointing the finger of blame with such hate, an advanced and civilized society would focus on mental health and ways to recognize people who need help with their mental health. I am so sorry for the family and friends of these two women.
so what is King barry going to do now to protect us from this latest crisis? ban hollywood movies? ban actors? story writers? ban grandfather's who own .22 caliber rifles? , ban crazy white kids? ---- I am sure Sen. feinstein will introduce more liberal assinine legislation ---- because you know we are all just a bunch of children who need the gov't to tell us what we can and cant own and do ---- you know it is for our own good, because politicians simply know better --- ohhh and no more big gulps for anyone! ......dumb leadership for a predominantly dumb populace --- all down hill from here unfortunately ----
At seventeen he knew the consequences of his actions. If I were on the jury I would see that he does not see the light of freedom ever again. No parole. Life till the day he dies in prison.
What the HELL is wrong with kids these days!!!!!
Wow, that was pretty disturbing. The one thing I noticed is that the gun he used was stolen from the owner. Our government fails to realize that most guns used to commit crimes are purchased from legally licensed gun dealers
before being sold multiple times. About 500,000 guns are stolen each year as in this case.
Chris A.
They are Godless! God has been removed from all our schools, public squares and politics. Without a moral compass, it is easy for someone to justify or rationalize this type of behavior.
Give me a break - are priests Godless? You realize that God was probably the first documented mass murderer and did it twice - the firstborn of Egypt (including the livestock, which if you follow any psychiatry, you know that murdering animals like that is what mass killers do as they move to humans) and almost all of humanity and animal life in the great flood? Was God removed from God when He killed all those people? You know how many people have been murdered in the name of God?
Chris,
Make up your mind....
So, are they "sold multiple times" or are they stolen?
However, you neglected to mention where they are stolen from. Was it not just last month there was an article on MCNBC that noted a RAIL CAR had it's shipment stolen? That shipment was firearms was it not?
How many are stolen by burgalarizing sporting goods stores? One I know of personally, the thieves cut a hole in the roof and entered that way. No-one knew as the alarm never went off.
How many are stolen by burgalarizing National Guard Armories? It's not often, and it's not advertised, but it does happen.
Oh, how many are stolen from Police Evidence rooms? Not many, but who exactly has access to those areas?
Lastly, how many are stolen or lost by police themselves? Just this week there was an article about a police officer losing his side arm. I know of an FBI agent that had the ultimate embarrassment. He left his side arm in a stall in a men's toilet. I brought it to the security officer at the front desk, so I KNOW that's true.
So please tell us which is it... are they sold or stolen.
The point I'm making is that the guns are legitimately bought then resold without background checks being done on the new owners. Also, guns are being stolen.
If the movie influenced him, it influenced a mentally unstable young man. And had it not been a movie, it would have been a video game, or an argument, or a perceived slight. There are causes to everything, and to dwell on only one is just as fatal a mistake as to ignore another.
Why isn't there a big push to ban horror films? This murderer actually says what motivated him to do these things, so it must be true. If only we had banned horror films, these murders would not have occurred!
I hope everyone understands sarcasms and knows it when they see it. If you don't my above post is one of them.
I'm just going to shorten this since this seems to be a trend now, blaming entertainment instead of mental illness. You can read the longer version I wrote for the New Mexico teen who "loved" violent video games and killed his family.
This kid got caught killing his family. He has to blame something or he'll be executed. If he blames the movies, maybe it will get enough traction and he'll only have to go to a hospital for the rest of his life.
Don't let these people fool you, they are way more messed up than any movie could make them.
Thanks Hollywood !
Ironic that the same Lib gun haters are same ones that make training films for serial killers.
Sicko, plain and simple. In his account of his actions, he also stated that he first went for a knife, but then decided that he didn't want either of his targets to feel any pain. The kid is deranged. What got him there...could be hundreds of things, but I personally have difficulty digesting his movie claim. He may have connected with Michael's inability to feel remorse, but that would be about it, as far as the movie goes.
Only a sick-minded individual could kill their family like this...
..and only a sick-minded individual could enjoy watching disgusting films of other people doing it.
I want to warn everyone, that if you believe diagnosing mental illness will curtail violence & murders you are sadly mistaken. I am all for ensuring those who have a mental illness get help; but keep in mind that the government's true motive is to get your guns.
If you allow them to restrict your ability to own a gun based on a "mental illness", all they would need to do is force the doctors to start diagnosing you with some sort of "mental illness" and the government will take your guns.
So anyone that has ever been treated or diagnosed with depression, PTSD, ADD, Bi-Polar or numerous other so called "psychological problems" will be banned from owning guns.
Just think about it, when I was a kid you could have a fight in school and be sent to the principles office...today you are sent to jail and come out with a criminal record. What better way to make criminals out of people than to just simply change the law.
Government is ALWAYS the problem and NEVER the solution.
you know it scott.when i was in 9th grade,our art teacher told the class to take out whats in your pockets and scketch it.mine was a pack of gum and a small lock blade knife.i got an A and he never said a word about the knife.times have changed.i would prob have misdemeners and felonies if i were in school now.
If the media doesn't affect people then why do advertisers pay so much money for advertisement?
Why do we see so many copycats when something is sensationalized in the media?
Excellent Point Mark
It sounds like he learned his lesson. Feel free to argue against the death penalty if you want to sound like an idiot.
Um, does he not sound pretty nuts to you?