October 1999, guys walks into my parents monograming business, past my mom, three other ladies and over to his ex girlfriend sitting at a computer, setting up a monogram. She had broken up with him a week earlier and filed for a restraining order two days before. He pulls out a 9mm and shoots her in the head, then turns the gun on himself, also shooting himself in the head. Scary thing was, not only had he walked within a foot of my mom with the gun in his hand, there were a total of six others in the place and he had 8 rounds left in the mag, but he had three more full mags in his pocket.
December 2002, Ryan Frazier, a fish at Baylor (on a full ride academic scholarship) who was in my son's Scout troop and was an Eagle Scout, murders his mom, dad, younger brother and family dog, stabbing them time and again. Kid was the kind of guy, we would have enjoyed dating our daughter. His Dad was a friends and co-worker of mine, really a great guy and the Scout Master of the troop.
Ryan borrowed his roommates car, drove to Victoria from Waco in the middle of the night, brought a knife with him. When he tried to enter the house, the family dog started barking, so he stabbed her multiple times. His mom heard something and he encounters her in the hall, stabbing her to death. He enters his younger brothers room (a Jr. In HS & friend of our daughter), still asleep and stabs him multiple times. He then Heads towards his dad in the bedroom. Dad hearing noise meets Ryan in the hallway where he stabs his dad to death. He then returns to his brothers room, to make sure he is dead.
He then torches the house, burning it to the ground. He was caught when he was seen on video buying gas for the car and filling the gas can near Victoria. Wierd thing was, we had seen them all at the mall about 8 that night, so we were about the last people to see them alive. He is serving life with no chance for parole. He plead guilty in exchange for taking the death penalty off the table. When asked why, he says he doesn't know....
