A Minnesota teen is accused of killing two clerks at different stores in northern Iowa, and will face two separate trials. 17 year old, Michael Swanson, of St. Louis Park, MN has been charged with first degree murder and robbery in two different counties. He walked into one gas station just after 9 p.m. and shot a woman, 47, who later died at a local hospital. He then drove about 30 miles to another town and killed a 61 year old woman. Swanson has been in trouble with the law a lot according to court and police records. He was guilty of stealing a neighbor’s car and then later crashing it, lying about his name and birthday and vomited in the back of the squad car because of vodka in his system. This just seems crazy to me how a kid can be so disobedient and just continue to do wrong things with the law. Hopefully this will put him in jail for a while so maybe he gets his mind straight and learns his lesson. What was the point of killing 2 innocent woman who did nothing wrong, just because he was breaking the law and robbing a gas station.
It also states in the article that he disobeys his household rules, which is probably why he has no fear breaking the law. To me it is partly the parents fault for not putting their foot down and doing something to stop him from disobeying their rules at home. I’m not saying that it is their fault that he shot 2 women but it has to have something to do with it. Police have been called to his house 10 times since 2006, on reports of numerous things, threat, assaults, weapons violence and theft. You would think the parents would be sick of it and not put up with it anymore and maybe do something about it like send him away and maybe learn a lesson or two. He came home from a juvenile center and already had a warrant for his arrest because he took his mothers credit card and her vehicle, and then broke into the family’s cabin and took weapons. I am glad that they found him right away after these two shootings and hopefully he will be locked up for a long time and maybe if he gets out he will learn his lesson.
http://www.startribune.com/local/108652399.html?page=2&c=y
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