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| Scott and Buckley Kuhn-Fricker |
Buckley Kuhn-Fricker was so disturbed by what she discovered about her teenage daughter’s boyfriend that she spent a tumultuous week pushing for a breakup. By Thursday, she texted a friend saying the “outspoken Neo Nazi” was out of their lives.
But just hours later, the family said that the 17-year-old boyfriend had shot and killed Kuhn-Fricker, 43, and her husband, Scott, 48, in their Reston, Va., home. It happened around 5 a.m. Friday, while the couple’s children and relatives were inside. They had gathered to celebrate the Christmas holiday.
The teen, who shot himself and is in critical condition at a hospital, was charged with two counts of murder Saturday after police spent Friday investigating at the large, single-family home decorated with Christmas wreaths and snowflakes. The Washington Post generally does not name juveniles charged with crimes unless they are charged as adults. The family of the teen, who is from Lorton, declined to comment.
Fairfax County police would not offer a motive for the double slaying, but family members and friends tied it directly to the couple’s struggle to keep hate out of their home, as one friend put it. They agreed to talk about the efforts because they said it was important to expose what happened.
According to the article the girl's mother found white supremacist tweets on her daughter's phone that she believed came from the boyfriend, that combined with things her daughter had said led her to believe that the young man was trying to convert her to his way of thinking, so she contacted their private school to let them know what was going on as well.
She also contacted the young man's parents.
The police told the grandmother that the parents caught the young man in their daughter's bedroom early Friday morning, and after telling him to get out he shot and killed them both, before turning the gun on himself.
This is a terrible tragedy, and sadly we may see more like it now that Donald Trump has empowered these Neo-Nazis and Whites Supremacists, and inspired them to openly talk about their beliefs and attempt to recruit others.
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