Conn. man kills masked boy, finds out it's his son

Yahoo News (AP) ^ | 9/27/2012 | AP

[South40]

NEW FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) — A man fatally shot a masked teenager in self-defense outside his neighbor's house during what appeared to be an attempted late-night burglary and then discovered it was his son, state police said.

Police identified the dead boy as 15-year-old Tyler Giuliano, who was shot at about 1 a.m. Thursday in New Fairfield, a town along the New York line just north of Danbury.

[Irenic]

wow.

[Crazieman]

A different article mentioned that this neighbor and woman was the father’s sister (and the boy’s aunt).

[Irenic]

Lives destroyed here. God bless ‘em.

[wardaddy]

man...that would be painful

[montag813]

The father confronted someone wearing a black ski mask and black clothing and then fired his gun when the person went at him with a shiny weapon in his hand, police said. When police officers arrived, the father was sitting on the grass next to the woman's home and the teen was lying in the driveway with gunshot injuries. The teen was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. "All in all it's a tragedy," state police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said.

WTF! Why would the boy try and rob his aunt next door and then come at his own father with a "shiny weapon"? This story is insane. But don't be surprised if the father takes his own life before the weekend. Prayers up.

[andyk]

It is really heartbreaking.

[Puckster]

Odds are it’s drug related.....sounds like paranoia wouldn’t even allow the 15 year old to go further than next door to pay for the habit. (Just my take from the story)

Indeed, prayers up!!!!!!

[Jonty30]

The kid probably owed some gang big-time. That would certainly explain why he would rob his own father.

[montag813]

Odds are it’s drug related.....sounds like paranoia wouldn’t even allow the 15 year old to go further than next door to pay for the habit. (Just my take from the story)

Yours is the only plausible explanation. Heartbreaking.

[Lancey Howard]

This story reminds me of the end of the movie, ‘Joe’.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Lovely. RIP.

[Puckster]

Drugs, gangs....still, a very powerful obsession overriding all reason, completely myopic in nature, void of hope.

Sad indeed.

[Jonty30]

My experience, with drug users, was that they were completely untrustworthy. Their whole life revolved around the next high and there wasn’t anything there wouldn’t do to get it.

[dalereed]

Sounds like the kid needed to be killed just like any other crook!

[DaveA37]

Sound like people are “assuming” the deceased boy was involved with drugs. I did not read that in the article. It is possible there were other reasons for the potential burglary. Just saying.

[Smokin' Joe]

I agree. Prayers up for the father. Dear God, I don’t even want to imagine how that would feel.

[dalereed]

Burglary is burglary, I don’t care what the reason!!!

Wear a mask and do the job, kill him!!

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“The teen’s father, Jeffrey Giuliano, a fifth-grade teacher in town, hasn’t returned a message seeking comment on what happened.”

I can’t imagine why. Filthy media bloodsuckers.

[blu]

Sounds like the kid needed to be killed just like any other crook!

Really? We kill the crooks? I thought we just killed the killers. I find this story to be just tragic, through and through.