Spoke with a customer/friend of the family of this kid.
Apparently the parents tried everything to get the kid help. Numerous programs, counselors, interventions, etc.
Apparently he met the other boy recently, and that created the perfect storm.
Word is that the other boy's parents left him here and moved back to Mexico.
I'm guessing he was staying with someone in the community??

A very sad situation.
The widow is well... a widow with a child on the way and two adoptee's.
And the parents of the boy are looking at losing everything.

I don't know much about mental illness, but my thinking is that there is some kind of malfunction in his brain. Very sad. Maddening, and yet sad.