[nickcarraway]

None of the crimes mentioned seemed to indicate he was on a path to murder?

[kindred]

[None of the crimes mentioned seemed to indicate he was on a path to murder?]

Noticed that too. Is it possible that all the scrapes with the law and then the 7 year prison sentence with prisoners who taught him more criminal behaviours( the modern all play and no work prison system makes them twofold more the child of hell it seems to me) may have put him over the edge.

[SampleMan]

None of the crimes mentioned seemed to indicate he was on a path to murder?

concur, although I frankly don't know what "uttering" is.

[Never on my watch]

“None of the crimes mentioned seemed to indicate he was on a path to murder?”

To the degree we can anticipate what the criminal mind leads to, I suspect that is correct. But I believe a burglar has to know he could engage a person who is willing to defend their property with lethal force. In which case the burglar needs to be willing to kill the property owner.

In any case, a lot of jurisdiction’s recidivist laws would have put this guy away for life.