Thomas White’s mother has told the media that her son has been ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial.
White was the kid who fired off a round into the ceiling of Memorial Middle School in Joplin, Missouri. The gun he had was his father’s MAC-90.
Without seeing how that evaluation came about I can’t comment on the legitimacy of the findings. However, I can comment on what Norma White said to the press.
“He just doesn’t speak like a child would talk,” she said. “It’s a little hard to understand (him) sometimes, and also a little bit of rocking back and forth and he has no memory – very little memory of being a child. He’s asked ‘what was I like as a child?’”
I’m not saying she’s full of crap but I think she does have a flair for the overly dramatic. If it is true then why didn’t she get her son help? Why did it have to take her son firing a gun in school for her to finally do something about it?
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