A 17-year-old in northern Virginia is facing two counts of murder for
allegedly killing his girlfriend's parents after the couple tried to
get their daughter to stop dating him because of his suspected neo-Nazi
views.
According to police and family members who spoke to the media, the
couple, Scott and Buckley Kuhn-Fricker, were shot in their home by the
teenager, who then shot himself.
Fairfax County Police spokeswoman Reem Awad said the suspect, whose
name is being withheld by police because he is a minor, is hospitalized
in critical condition with life-threatening injuries. He is under police
guard.
Four other family members who were in the home at the time were
uninjured. Buckley Kuhn-Fricker recently discovered private tweets on
her daughter's phone that concerned her. The tweets, which she believed
were connected to the boyfriend, included one that responded to a photo
of a candy shop featuring a Jewish dreidel with the comment "ima run in
there with my swastika armband right now," the Washington Post reported.
The mother, according to the Post, wrote to the principal of the school
that her daughter and boyfriend attended, warning him of her concerns.
She sent the principal images showing a Twitter account that had
retweeted messages praising Adolf Hitler, supporting Nazi book burnings
and making derogatory comments about Jews, the Post reported.
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