Shawn Hainstock, the father of Weston High School gunman Eric Hainstock, is showing concern for his son…
Shawn Hainstock made no secret of his tears Thursday after a Sauk County Circuit Court hearing for his 16-year-old son, Eric, who is charged with killing the principal of Weston School in September.
“I’m concerned (Eric) might say the wrong thing (in an adult prison) and somebody would hurt him,” Shawn Hainstock said, tears in his eyes. “Somebody would kill him, and that would be that.”
In his first public interview since the shooting, Shawn Hainstock said he visits his son in the Sauk County Jail every day or two. “He kind of breaks down and cries a lot,” he said.
Sauk County Circuit Judge Patrick Taggart’s decision last month that the younger Hainstock be tried as an adult was a “tragedy,” Hainstock said. “My heart’s been tore out,” he said. “That just about killed me.”
“Nobody knows him like we do,” Shawn Hainstock said. “They don’t realize how loving a boy he is. He can be saved.”
But he said his son is “getting railroaded.”
The reason this is so interesting is that the defense is alleging that one of the reasons Eric Hainstock killed John Klang was because Eric Hainstock was abused by his father. At one point, Eric Hainstock was even removed from the house by the state but begged to be returned.
This leads me to believe one of two things. Either the alleged abuse wasn’t as bad as the defense is making it out to be, or that Shawn Hainstock is a hypocritical son of a bitch. Whatever one it is remains to be seen.
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