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Zorro

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Thu Feb 20, 2020, 11:21 AM Feb 2020

He found his wife and 6-year-old dead on Valentine's Day. His teen son is accused of the crime.

As the sun set on Valentine’s Day, Josh Norwood hurried from work to the grocery store to buy his wife flowers. The 37-year-old father of two pulled into his long driveway in rural Virginia a few minutes before 6 p.m. — just in time for dinner.

But as he walked up to the brick home in Fauquier County, bouquet in hand, Norwood sensed something was wrong, he said in an interview with The Washington Post. Beneath the Christmas lights that still dangled from the eaves, the curtains were drawn. And when he opened the door, his effervescent 6-year-old, Wyatt, was not there to greet him.

Instead, he was met by gunfire.

A bullet that seemed to come from the basement door sliced across his forehead. As blood poured down his face, Norwood said, he ran into the small ranch house to search for his family. The lights were on in the room belonging to his older son, Levi, but there was no sign of the 17-year-old. In the living room, there was what looked like a large pile of blankets on the floor.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/he-found-his-wife-and-6-year-old-dead-on-valentines-day-his-teen-son-is-accused-of-the-crime/2020/02/19/96fbb0e0-5342-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html

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He found his wife and 6-year-old dead on Valentine's Day. His teen son is accused of the crime. (Original Post) Zorro Feb 2020 OP
Sad, sad story - no good ever comes of hate & racism. AnotherMother4Peace Feb 2020 #1
Very sad...he must've been very angry to kill instead of just leaving. Karadeniz Feb 2020 #2
Killing his little six year old brother is clearly not the answer. LisaL Feb 2020 #3

AnotherMother4Peace

(4,251 posts)
1. Sad, sad story - no good ever comes of hate & racism.
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 12:53 PM
Feb 2020
Agonizingly sad story. From the article:

"Josh and Jen were “really prejudiced, as much as I hate to say this,” said the relative, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear she would upset the family."

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"His Facebook cover page quotes David Lane’s “14 words,” which the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as “the best-known slogan of the U.S. white supremacist movement.” Lane, founder of a group called the Order, died in prison after a conviction in the killing of a Jewish radio host in 1984."

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According to his friends, Levi’s relationship with his girlfriend made him happier than he had been in a long time. But they also wondered how the interracial relationship would play with his parents.

Both were against his dating a black girl, the relative said, but his father was “adamant” about the issue. “He didn’t want Leviathan having anything to do with her.”

I skipped (snipped) 2 paragraphs to keep to the 4 paragraph rule.

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