[pissant]

Or he could just be nuts. It’s a handy excuse.

[familyop]

"Or he could just be nuts. It’s a handy excuse."

...agreed. I had a quick look at reporting differences between regions of the USA. Newspapers in the southeast that I checked are only reporting the murderer's last name and that he "hated Christians" (but not his family's Christian background or his missionary past). Papers elsewhere (northwest and the like) are reporting his prior missionary training and membership.