Even with the statement that he was recently robbed, one does not usually get the idea that when there's a knock on the door, someone is after his money (or whatever they ended up taking) and immediately gets out a gun to shoot whomever is at the door. In my opinion, I believe that he really needs to grow out of a shell that is clearly tightly closed. I honestly think he was just trying to cover up the killing, which may have been accidental or not, with a comment about something effecting him. Funny how he basically used to do the same thing not too long ago, yet he had "post-traumatic stress" when he hears a knock on the door. I'd love to see what he has when the house makes noise.
And then I noticed how Eden states: "It's going to put a dampening on Halloween, I would think twice about going to a door that we don't know who lives behind."
I find it strange how he would say that. It's Halloween. Kids should not be worrying about if they are going to get shot (or anything along those lines) when they go out for trick-or-treating. It's the one night of the year where kids can truly run around making noises without anyone truly giving a damn about what's going on around them since it's so common that that behavior occurs on Halloween anyway. But clearly Eden's suggestion should be taken to heart by Quentin Patrick.
I also find it strange that Eden stated that when later in the article, it states that it was a town in which everyone really knew each other. It seems to me that they are just trying to make excuses and not own up to the fact that the boy was killed because of a stupid planned out action. As it was planned out to begin with since Patrick states he didn't want to be robbed again and other comments not mentioned in this article, but mentioned in
another article I found about this subject.
The guy shot 29 times and 13 of the bullets hit the boy. Something tells me he could have seen the boy by the time he shot the first bullet. Otherwise, he wouldn't be so accurate with his aiming.
