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Loughner’s Parents Could Release Statement Today

The parents of suspected Arizona shooter Jared Loughner could break their silence and release a statement today, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The Journal quotes neighbors who met with the couple on Monday, and says Randy and Amy Loughner have already prepared a public statement and it’s just a question of when they will release it. However, the statement will most likely be coordinated with the local sheriff.

“They’re hurting real bad,” neighbor Wayne Smith told the Journal. “They are devastated.”

But they’re also reportedly elusive. They have not been seen since the tragedy, and yesterday FBI agents who tried to question the couple were greeted by a boarded-up front door. Agents had to use the back entrance, and only gained entry after yelling commands.

That’s apparently not too odd for Randy. “Even in normal times,” the Journal says, “many on his block describe the elder Mr. Loughner as a reclusive man who had little time for neighborhood niceties.”

“They liked their privacy,” another neighbor George Gayan told the Journal.  Sometimes “I didn’t see him for three or four days.”

Smith, who has lived across the street from the Loughners since 1972, said he didn‘t even know the couple’s last name until after the incident. But that didn’t stop him from informing the couple on Saturday, after they had returned from a shopping trip to see police taping off their house, from informing them that their son was a suspect in the shooting rampage that was gripping the city at the time.

“She almost passed out right there,” he recalled. “He sat in the road with the tape up and cried.”

Read the entire WSJ article.

Comments (44)

  • inferno
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 6:54pm

    Frances Fox Piven will be happy, especally if they sack the radio station. That would be an exuse
    for the Obama administration to exercise the “top down” option, especially if the station demanded
    protection.

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  • If its Brown, (like Jerry Brown), flush it down !
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 3:47pm

    Its not “hate speach” , its called a difference of opinion, I would expect anyone who has at least a second grade education to know the difference. The democrat party of Fresno Ca. is having a so called Vigil, along side with a protest at the same time outside of a conservative radio station today at 4:30. So lets see a vigil, (sounds caring and peaceful), along side a demonstration (anarchy). Hmmmmmmm, I dont think those two go together, maybe its just me. The jig is up democrat party! We see right through you!! We know who you are, and what your plans are, its impossible for you to win anything through this…

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  • LIBSIZTASTEE
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 3:46pm

    I remember my first skull shrine in the backyard.My parents were so proud. NOT!
    $10 says the parents are old hippies.

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  • sWampy
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 3:08pm

    I knew Luke Woodham one of the left’s test cases for outcome based education, and the school system alone doesn’t produce these animals, they require a loving liberal family to nudge them in the correct direction.

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  • SilentReader
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 1:53pm

    I’ll reserve my comments until I hear what they have to say.

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 1:07pm

    For the parents of this guy or any other who commits the unspeakable, it has got to be hell on earth to endure the pain and guilt. But why didn’t they heed the warnings and get this guy some help? That has got to be THE MAIN QUESTION!

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  • i4nsicmd
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 11:22am

    Just imagine arriving home from the grocery store and getting hit with that news. I‘m surprised these people haven’t already committed suicide.

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  • reckless
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 11:20am

    Does the nut fall far from the tree? Inquiring minds want to know.

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  • Karl Magnus
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 10:46am

    Arizona has had an “involuntary commitment” law for decades. Mommy and Daddy should have utilized it.

    ~(Ä)~

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 10:43am

    Interesting post byt is crazy guy! http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/erad3.html (ERAD3)

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  • Howard_Roark
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 9:56am

    Of course they are hurting bad. Their son has become an infamous mass murderer and destroyed the lives of dozens of people. Now they have to live everyday saddened by knowing that their son will likely get the death penalty and die, while at the same time they have to deal with the feeling that he rightfully deserves it, while at the same time the are haunted by the thought that they might have unknowingly done something wrong as parents to have created such a monster. Loughner has destroyed his parents and they are suffering, too.

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  • Ladykiva
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 9:50am

    Mental Illness is often ignored or excused by parentts – the urge to protect one’s child is very strong. Until we have a foolproof way to look into a person’s mind and soul, we need to accept that no one can predict with any accuracy how a mentally disturbed individual will act. Being alive is a risk in itself – no one can make this world perfectly safe or perfectly predicatble.

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  • Mr.Nick
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 9:46am

    What are they going to say? ‘We should have given him the green pill instead of the blue one?’

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  • victorymanns
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 9:31am

    nice job parenting .. didnt they know there son was a wacko . Im sure they did …

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  • Awakenow
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 9:13am

    Compassion, there are more victims than you may realize.

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  • texasfarmer
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 9:11am

    There was a report, not confirmed yet, that Loughner attended a high school linked to Bill Ayres.

    “Jared Lee Loughner, the suspected gunman in Saturday’s Arizona shooting, attended a high school that is part of a network in which teachers are trained and provided resources by a liberal group founded by Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers and funded by President Obama, WND has learned.”

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    • flashlight
      Posted on January 11, 2011 at 11:14am

      Here it comes. Funded by George Soros? Toss a few more in. I can see a chalkboard in your future.

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  • APatriotFirst
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 8:48am

    Taking bets here….They will blame the Right.
    Co-ordinated with sheriff’s office? Why? Responsibility? Nope, none accepted.

    I feel for these parents, but truth is truth. We can only do so much with our adult children, but at one time, those children were young. How many can look at your kids and believe them always innocent?
    We do the best to raise them right, but at some point, they must accept responsibility for their own actions. I love my kids dearly, but they know…….I am responsible for me, they are responsible for themselves. If my kids did something that was a result of what I did, I accept my responsibility for it. But I think I did ok, none of mine have blamed me for the choices they have made.

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  • jedi.kep
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 8:41am

    These parents face a double tragedy. They have just lost their son and their son has killed other people. They will be second guessing ever decision they have made over the past few years and will constantly be haunted by the thoughts of “What if I had only….” I do not envy their position. I cannot imagine the emotiional turmoil they must be facing. May God have mercy on them and help them to deal with all this over the upcoming years.

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  • Sunshine Connie
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 8:35am

    I pity the parents who failed to see the need or get their son help. They will be in personal hell for a long time for feeling they have failed their child. God help them and I will pray for them.

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    • Highland
      Posted on January 11, 2011 at 8:57am

      There’s a good op-ed in the NY Post news section (online) today that points out how difficult it is to find help for mentally ill family members (thanks, in part, to stupid federal government policies and how they‘re wasting money that’s supposed to be spent on helping the mentally ill). The family of the Unabomber was utterly frustrated in their efforts. Search for “The shooting’s true lesson” by D.J. Jaffee.

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    • ilovethiscountry
      Posted on January 11, 2011 at 9:12am

      We don‘t know that they didn’t. It is extremely difficult to get help for your child. They need to be bad enough. They need to have broken the law. The child needs to cooperate with help. I had a difficult daughter. No one would help. Children can beat up their parents and get away with it, but if you touch them you are abusing them. If they ar 14 or over, you can do nothing with them without their permission if they have psychological problems. The progressives you know. Don’t judge the parents too harshly. When he was out in his tent, he wasn’t bothering anyone.

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  • TexasCommonSense
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 8:35am

    I’ll refrain from passing judgment on the parents.

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  • kentuckypatriot
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 8:34am

    I feel sorry for the parents, what their life must be like right now, turned upside down by this tragedy. We all need to keep them in our prayers.

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    • HillBillySam1
      Posted on January 11, 2011 at 8:58am

      Their statement may explain some things. Then again, it may simply be a generic statement about loving their son and sending condolences to the victims. We do need to pray for them and for the victims and their families. Loughner has un-leashed a firestorm in this country. I also pray that the attention-seeking copy-cats don’t start showing up and repeating what Loughner has done. We will see…..

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  • Ironmaan
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 8:33am

    What could they possibly say? “Sorry for copulating and creating this monster”?
    http://guerillatics.com

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  • grandmaof5
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 8:32am

    I can only imagine the horror these poor parents felt. In a way, they have had a death in their family and need our prayers too. Very sad.

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on January 11, 2011 at 9:39am

      True, but I have to wonder if they were turning a blind eye to their sons growing psychosis thinking he was going through a ‘stage’. Surely they saw some sign that this young man was coming unhinged.

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    • nothingbuthetruth
      Posted on January 11, 2011 at 9:54am

      Dealing with a family member with mental illness is very difficult. The mentally ill think they are sane and there is no reasoning with them. Unless there is an episode they can get them help, but even then it is hard because they think they are fine and stop taking their meds. Focus on mental illness and treating people like this before they explode will help our country a lot.

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    • pcrews1120
      Posted on January 11, 2011 at 12:44pm

      If my son did something like that, I‘d be so devastated I don’t know what I’d do. It’s a terrible thing to have to live with for the rest of your life. The kid obviously doesn’t give a rats ass, but the parents will be suffering for the rest of time…at least I would.

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  • GeauxAlready
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 8:32am

    What do you say? I’m sorry my son is a leftwing whack job, all your Cha t-shirts pushed him over the edge……………

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on January 11, 2011 at 8:31am

    I think if I were in their shoes, I would keep my mouth shut. Because people are going to want to know why they didn’t know what their kid was doing. Especially since he was living with them.

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    • VanGrungy
      Posted on January 11, 2011 at 9:05am

      http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread648926/pg1
      The Secret’s Out: Internet Media Is Beginning to Report That Jared Loughner Is a Member Of Abovetopsecret

      http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread649091/pg1
      A look inside the mind of erad3 (most-likely Jared Loughner)

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    • 912828Buckeye
      Posted on January 11, 2011 at 9:14am

      They have been coached for 3 days now, they will talk and tell you how rough their poor little boy has had it.

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    • mrdbcooper
      Posted on January 11, 2011 at 10:16am

      I live in a rural area, we like our privacy, and I have a shooting range in my back yard…maybe you should come and take my guns, ammo and several copies of the constitution…like Chaney said to Laehy, “go ef yourself”
      Hey Dubkin…molon labe

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    • chickenlittle
      Posted on January 11, 2011 at 10:36am

      Anybody who has kids and allows them (especially at that age) to have a shrine with a skull in the back yard is a little off. I have to agree with the poster on here who said that they have had three days to be coached by this hack of a sheriff. Especially after yesterday, when it supposedly came to light that this same local Sheriff was one who was fully aware of the kid’s mental state and had advised people not to carry their complaints of threats further… this is the same Sheriff’s department that approved the background check on the gun purchase, if I’m not mistaken.

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    • Xcori8r
      Posted on January 11, 2011 at 10:56am

      I’m sure not in a position to judge, but my read on that reaction is that they saw it coming.

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    • NapoHill15
      Posted on January 11, 2011 at 11:00am

      Are we so shallow that we would consider the parents in this to allow the scene to be further desecrated . . . that they would allow themselves to be branded and packaged by liberals scratching and clawing at their door so that they might create proper imagery and contexts . . . ?

      Are we really that shallow that we would think that liberals would milk this as though it were the mother of all hideousness, highly effective hideousness? Are we that shallow . . . Or is it that we have been conditioned to be?

      The context of liberalism has created our reality . . . We must live with that for now. Context is everything . . . after all.

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    • Tony
      Posted on January 11, 2011 at 11:05am

      Reports say Jared lived alone, not with his parents. Personally, i’ll try to not act as the far left in all of their irrationality and rush to place blame on those they fear and hate. Best to wait until facts reveal the parents. As a fellow imperfect parent, I grieve for them as I do for the many that were killed and hurt, especially the parents of that precious 9 year old girl.

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    • KarenKat
      Posted on January 11, 2011 at 1:46pm

      Its a tough thing to get a kid help, I’ve had problems with my son, who lives in my home and I got him help only for him not to take the advice of the professionals….. My son is not a danger to himself or anyone else and he is not sick like this Jarded… None the less it is a difficult thing living with someone who has issues… I think they need to release a statment and then also stay away from the press….. And maybe they knew what he was doing and were afraid of him…. It’s all very sad )-:

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    • godlovinmom
      Posted on January 11, 2011 at 2:36pm

      it does make one wonder if they were living with their son and this shrine was in the back yard…and he was acting crazy like his classmates said he was…either the parents are as loony as him or they were scared of him…and if it is the case where they were scared of him and just didn’t know what to do…how sad it is for them that their son did this…guess we’ll have to see what they say..but like a commentor said…they have had three days now to rehearse…so wonder what they’ll (or whomever) will come up with…

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    • MMR
      Posted on January 11, 2011 at 4:08pm

      @VanGrungy

      I read some of those posting, he made no sense. Then he would get mad when people questioned his sanity, or his grammar skills.

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