Facebook confession: Double-homicide suspect Casey Lawhorn found dead - The Washington Post

I don't know if this boy's action were motivated by religion or his apparent stance of anti-religion, "if you think you are helping him just by talking to the sky, you’re f—ing wrong." By his own admission, he killed these people because he had “spent a lot of time thinking about murder” and wondered what it felt like.  There were obvious mental health issues but the overall circumstances remain a bit bizzarre.

Chad Lawhorn woke up about 3 a.m. Sunday, rested but hungry after a long flight from San Francisco back to Nashville the day before. As he was making himself some food, he got a message.

His younger brother, Casey James Lawhorn, transferred $250 to his Venmo account. Along with the money was a one-word note that, to Chad Lawhorn, instantly hinted at something terrible: “Damages.”

Chad immediately thought his brother would harm himself, as he had done twice before, and the money was somehow a way to compensate for the emotional toll about to befall him. Casey, he said, had been suffering from severe depression and had stayed briefly at mental-health 

facilities. Sometime between two failed suicide attempts, Casey wondered whether the reason he was still alive was because he didn’t have a gun, Chad said.

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 Casey Lawhorn would travel 300 miles across multiple states, setting off a day-long manhunt that would end in rural Mississippi, where his body was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound Monday morning, authorities said.

Facebook confession: Double-homicide suspect Casey Lawhorn found dead - The Washington Post