crazy f***ing kids these days

[publicenemy137]

SOURCE: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/21/sho....ap/index.html

Police: Teen shooter dies in car crash

Wednesday, September 21, 2005; Posted: 2:13 p.m. EDT (18:13 GMT)

ELKHORN CITY, Kentucky (AP) -- A 17-year-old who was sent home from school for being intoxicated shot his parents and grandmother to death, then died in a crash after police attempted to pull him over on a highway, authorities said. Another driver also was killed.

The teen was identified Wednesday as Matthew Hackney of Elkhorn Creek, a senior at East Ridge High School who authorities said had never been in trouble. School officials said the student had taken prescription painkillers.

Hackney was cited for public intoxication at the school Tuesday and released to the custody of his parents, State Police Lt. Bobby Johnson said.

That afternoon, a friend of the youth notified authorities of the shootings.

"He just told me he killed them," Christa Coleman, 18, told the Lexington Herald-Leader. "He said they had caught him with drugs and weed at school today. They had a drug test and he failed it, and when they tried to arrest him, he ran."

She said Hackney asked her if he could hide out at her home for a few days "and I told him, 'No way."'

The bodies of Ivan Hackney, 47, Shirley Hackney, 44, and Wilma Hackney, 63, were found at the teen's home, Johnson said. Mike Maynard, a paramedic for the Elkhorn City Ambulance Service, said they were all shot multiple times, apparently with a large-caliber rifle.

Johnson said state troopers spotted Hackney on a highway and attempted to stop him, but Hackney lost control and crashed head-on into a pickup truck, killing Terry A. Taylor, 41, an Elkhorn City employee.

Pike County School Superintendent Frank Welch said the teen told an assistant principal that he had taken five Ultrams, a prescription painkiller. "I don't think at this point in time they know exactly where he got them," Welch said.

Hackney had never been in trouble at the school before, and students, teachers and administrators were devastated, Welch said.

"It's just a tragedy," Welch said. "When you talk to the teachers and the people who knew him, they say there wasn't a better student who ever went through that school than him."


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what the hell is up with crazy insano kids these days?

[96Civ]

Drugs do nasty things to peoples minds.

[lamehonda]

....And their lives.

[clawhammer]

Stay off of drugs.

[turtlecrxsi]

But they're still looking for who provided the ultrams...

That is the craziest shit... kills his parents and grandparent, then ends up dead in car wreck but of course an innocent person had to also die. WTF?!

[2.2 Straight six]

im glad i've been clean of weed for a while, but in the UK when i did weed it was class C an if i was caught with an amount deemed "for personal use" i could only have it taken off me by the police. i dunno how it would make someone go so wrong though, an to kill your own family ? my greatest fear is that of my family being in danger.

i dont drink or smoke anymore, an feel better for it.

[YogsVR4]

Sad and tragic.

[jcsaleen]

That's horrible...

[BP2K2Max]

i was on another forum and someone who had been prescribed ultram was talking about how they had seizures from taking the normal dosage. maybe there's something up with that painkiller that screws with your brain.

[Oz]

Yes, all his actions are easily explainable by drugs. Just ask the media or the government?


Lemmings.

[lamehonda]

I guess I will do the honors


Drugs are bad mkay.

[Rally Sport]

Wow, thats pretty bad.

[publicenemy137]

I don't think the mere act of smoking weed and taking painkillers which normal people take cause one to load up a gun and kill your parents. This dude was probably deranged and crazy

[-Jacko-]

i cant read any more its upsettin me

[KustmAce]

He was probably so out of his mind because of the painkillers he had no idea what he was doing. Probably better that he died, cuz he probably would have killed himself once he became sober and learned what he had done.