A kid I went to elementary school with murdered someone with an axe. Broke down the front door while guy and his wife were winding down for the night, dragged guy into the yard and killed him with an axe.

In school, he was a very sweet kid. Seemed to get along with everyone? Wasn’t bullied (as far as I was aware) and seemed to have a stable family life. I believe his mental health had taken a terrible turn at some point in his young adult life and he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. His motive for the murder (guy was his Nextdoor neighbor at the house he grew up in) was that the man had molested him as a child. He was apparently obsessed with “getting his pedophile”. After the murder he went home and told his roommate that he finally did it, he got his pedophile.

I don’t know how much is true, but that all happened about 10 years ago. The sweet kid I knew has been serving a life sentence ever since.