Casey James Lawhorn, 23, said he shot his mother Vi Lawhorn and friend Avery Gaines with a stolen .22 LR in the early hours of Sunday (April 8) at his family home in East Ridge, Tennessee, in an update on the social media site more than 1,000 words long seen by Newsweek.
He then described how after he “nervously paced for a few minutes” while he played out the coming events, he walked up to Gaines as he slept on the floor and shot him in the head.
Lawhorn then walked into his mother’s room where he attempted to shoot her, but the gun jammed. He left the room to fix the jam, then returned and fired twice before the gun jammed again.
"She started screaming the worst scream I've ever heard. Movies really don't do justice to how true terror sounds,” he said. "She shouted, 'You shot me! You've killed me! Why?' Once I got the jam fixed, I turned on the light so I wouldn't miss again. I shot at her twice more and it was over."
Lawhorn said he then took some cash and heroin which Gaines had on him. Police said the 23-year-old also dialed 911 to confess to the killings, but had fled the scene by the time officers arrived.
"I've spent a lot of time thinking about murder, wondering what it feels like. But I've barely felt anything,” he added in the Facebook post.
During the Facebook post, Lawhorn also described how he has felt suicidal since school and is intending to take his own life to save "state money" on executing or imprisoning him.
In October, he posted a YouTube video on Facebook about gun control, adding how “mental health is a very important part of this conversation.” He also recently re-shared an old post from October 2015 detailing the number of mass shootings which occur in the U.S. with the sarcastic comment: “We don’t need gun control. That’s silly.”
Liberal education and brain washing strikes again.... ------------------------------------------ He sort of blamed his school. Casey didn’t go into detail why he killed his mother and friend. He started off the post by saying, “I take full responsibility for my actions. Nothing anyone has or hasn’t done to me caused this, my decisions and my failures are my own.”
Yet, he hints later in the post that his tenure at Middle Tennessee State University was a factor behind this double-murder-suicide. “And it’s my opinion that I’ve been heading to unavoidable tragedy since I started at MTSU,” Casey wrote. “I’m not saying the university made me do it, but that the chain of events that I initiated by going there led me here, to inevitable suicide.” Casey attended MTSU from 2013 to 2016, withdrawing early in September 2016, according to WBIR.
He then described how after he “nervously paced for a few minutes” while he played out the coming events, he walked up to Gaines as he slept on the floor and shot him in the head.
Lawhorn then walked into his mother’s room where he attempted to shoot her, but the gun jammed. He left the room to fix the jam, then returned and fired twice before the gun jammed again.
"She started screaming the worst scream I've ever heard. Movies really don't do justice to how true terror sounds,” he said. "She shouted, 'You shot me! You've killed me! Why?' Once I got the jam fixed, I turned on the light so I wouldn't miss again. I shot at her twice more and it was over."
Lawhorn said he then took some cash and heroin which Gaines had on him. Police said the 23-year-old also dialed 911 to confess to the killings, but had fled the scene by the time officers arrived.
"I've spent a lot of time thinking about murder, wondering what it feels like. But I've barely felt anything,” he added in the Facebook post.
During the Facebook post, Lawhorn also described how he has felt suicidal since school and is intending to take his own life to save "state money" on executing or imprisoning him.
In October, he posted a YouTube video on Facebook about gun control, adding how “mental health is a very important part of this conversation.” He also recently re-shared an old post from October 2015 detailing the number of mass shootings which occur in the U.S. with the sarcastic comment: “We don’t need gun control. That’s silly.”
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