The pain-pill pushing doctors are also at fault, giving Granny powerful drugs for her aches and pains and not monitoring how much of the stuff she’s taking.
Many teens can access hits from Granny’s medicine chest for free.
There will probably be more and more of these incidents as kids stay at home longer. In this case, probably the parents had already kicked the kid out and his grandparents were being kind housing him.
Not that 17 is that old, but years ago the dysfunctional, drug-using teens would just run away and eventually either learn some trade to support themselves or end up in prison.
Now the kids seem to stay at home or with relatives and keep using drugs and no one kicks them out until finally we get some escalation in violence.
We really can only have so many adult personalities in a home without there being some kind of strife.