Itzcoatl Ocampo joined the Marine Corps at age 18 "with the hope of learning to kill."
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-accused-oc-serial-killer-died-20131129,0,3412408.story?dssReturn#axzz2m4thekxa
The Marine Corps disappointed him: "during a six-month tour in Iraq he drove a water truck and never saw combat," according to LA Times writers Adolfo Flores and Hailey Branson-Potts.
After leaving the Marines, Ocampo became a free-lance killer two years ago in Orange County, according to charges for which he was arrested.
He was charged with killing the older brother of a friend, the friend's mother, and four homeless men. His goal was to kill sixteen people, according to prosecutors.
Instead, he ended up in jail and was found shaking and vomiting on Wednesday afternoon.
He died in a hospital on Thanksgiving Day, yesterday, only 25 years old. Eating the household cleanser Ajax may have been his cause of death, according to reports today.
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-1130-ocampo-death-20131130,0,278031.story#axzz2m6DIMxy4
Earlier he had complained of headaches and hearing voices and also had tics.
His sad face appears in today's Los Angeles Times.
What factors led to his desire to kill and to this sad end? Was he abused in his childhood?
Did he ever play those shoot-and-kill video games?
How strange that our nation provides free training in how to shoot and use weapons.
Then while being held in prison, he is given enough Ajax that he can save it up and kill himself.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-accused-oc-serial-killer-died-20131129,0,3412408.story?dssReturn#axzz2m4thekxa
The Marine Corps disappointed him: "during a six-month tour in Iraq he drove a water truck and never saw combat," according to LA Times writers Adolfo Flores and Hailey Branson-Potts.
After leaving the Marines, Ocampo became a free-lance killer two years ago in Orange County, according to charges for which he was arrested.
He was charged with killing the older brother of a friend, the friend's mother, and four homeless men. His goal was to kill sixteen people, according to prosecutors.
Instead, he ended up in jail and was found shaking and vomiting on Wednesday afternoon.
He died in a hospital on Thanksgiving Day, yesterday, only 25 years old. Eating the household cleanser Ajax may have been his cause of death, according to reports today.
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-1130-ocampo-death-20131130,0,278031.story#axzz2m6DIMxy4
Earlier he had complained of headaches and hearing voices and also had tics.
His sad face appears in today's Los Angeles Times.
What factors led to his desire to kill and to this sad end? Was he abused in his childhood?
Did he ever play those shoot-and-kill video games?
How strange that our nation provides free training in how to shoot and use weapons.
Then while being held in prison, he is given enough Ajax that he can save it up and kill himself.
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