The world will be a better place when this obese, greasy-haired, sociopathic mouth-breather is locked up. He'll learn some anger management lessons real fast in a state prison.

He xlaimed his mother "ruined his life" - I think je's about to find out what a ruined life really feels like (hint: it doesn't include slacking off all day in your mother's suburban house eating junk food and watching television).

Hope they're roughing him up a bit in the lockup.

I feel for the family. At what point do you turn your flesh and blood away? I feel we should hold the court system liable for these oversights. Obviously "the eyes of the court" were very clouded in this situation.

Very sad story for the family.

Tom, turn your flesh and blood away? good question. Some parents do it for much less than this. I'd say it's pretty obvious when they try to kill you your done. Maybe it's genetic and inherited - where is Dad? at any rate his issues have been around for a while by the sounds of it. As far as "holding the court responsible" that doesn't seem so logical. I'd bet there were other times that he should have been reported including obviously by the "the Choices Domestic Violence Program". He should of never been released regardless of attendance and it should of been reported back to the courts he failed the program. This kid deserves and belongs to be in jail before he hurts someone else. To bad he didn't take his frustrations out on himself instead. Maybe the effectiveness of the Choices Domestic Violence Program needs to be re-assessed? How many others have completed the program and not changed a bit? Your tax dollars at work...

CFoam, please read article again. It says he pushed his dad and was charged. Some, but not all, mental illnesses are hereditary. The courts can make referrals but the individual must attend and comply.
The failure is in our mental health facilities being closed or the 30 day limit by insurance for inpatient stays.

CFoam and H8er up there are completely out of line. No one should listen to them. How can you say stuff like that on a blog about your own community? Have some tact and respect for your fellow neighbors, you have no idea what this family is going through! No one does but obviously your sarcastic and mean remarks are helping in no way so keep them to yourself. The court is clearly responsible, it doesn't matter how many times he was not reported because when he was reported the court did not help. They saw him fit to be ready for society? Clearly not, it is too bad Blake did not get sufficient help before this happened and that is completely the fault of the court.

DMoney: completely the fault of the court?!? little Blakey doesn't have responsibility in your fantasy world?

so happy our judicial system lives here in the real world and will put Porky away for many, many years.

as for having no idea what the family is going through, I can hazard a guess: RELIEF!! Relief that mama is still alive! Relief that the sociopath who has made their lives hell for years has finally been locked up! Relief that they're never going to have to sleep with one eye open again! Relief that there will be some food left for them, finally! Relief that the self-absorbed mouth-breather who made their lives a horror movie is going to be an old, incontinent man when and if he ever gets out of prison!

That's what his family is going through, sweetie - they're probably gonna have a full Thanksgiving turkey dinner every night for a month they're so damn thankful he's out of their lives. They're all doing the happy dance in mama's hospital room!!

Yeah H8r, due to the original poor judgement of the court, Blake now needs to go to prison. He could have possibly been saved if our state cared more about the mentally ill but instead we decides to shut down all the mental health facilities...
And doing the happy dance in moms hospital room? You have to be kidding me...as she is laying there fighting for her life they are doing the happy dance that their son and brother is going to go to prison for the rest of his life. Hell no they aren't, they are very conflicted at the moment and don't know what to think. But again your snotty comments and are not helping at all. Why don't you just leave them alone or better yet why don't you leave our community alone and stop posting inconsiderate, inappropriate things. Or if you do continue to insult people, why not back up your insults by showing us your true identity. Your tasteless pseudonym isn't giving us any clues except for that you are probably a fat piece of $#*! who likes to sit on the couch all day and judge people they don't even know

DMoney, it's you that is completely out of line and out of touch. First off, this is a free country and freedom of speech is still our right. While h8r may have some good points I don't share them all or his method of communicating them - but that is his right. Secondly, people are capable of making there own decisions about what they read or listen to. Your feeble attempt to silence or control others opinions are presumptuous and disrespectful to the community at large.

I posed some questions and gave food for thought; I don't see anything constructive in your posts about how to prevent this from happening to anyone else. You are in denial and want to sweep this under the rug. This complacent attitude is part of our larger social problem. Think about all the victims of various school shootings - many red flags were disregarded by many people. I wonder if the Sandy Hook shooters Mom had the same strategy as you. Maybe if she had more help from the community rather than being the only one involved with her son all those beautiful children would be alive today.

It takes more than a legal system to maintain society - it takes people respecting the laws and looking out for their community members. Fixing or revising it and maintaining it requires participation of all parties. It requires discussion, examination of values and priorities. You need to communicate in order to do that, hard to do if you aren't participating or if your living in a brown paper bag.

Wow People, what the hell.... if this was your family or your son would you still feel the same. If your being honest I doubt you could answer that question. You really can't say until you’re in that situation and hopefully you never will be. If this was your Sister would you want her to be reading these comments. I wouldn't that's for sure. Have some respect and keep your ignorant comments to yourself.

It's not all the courts fault. In a way it's all of our fault. These behaviors did not appear overnight. Everyone that had the opportunity to observe his violent nature first hand - the doctors who treated him, teachers who taught him, the police, the anger mgt people. Yes, there are issues with mental health system in our country. The lack of a way to manage these people, report them when they are out of line, get them real help and to protect others from them doesn't exist today as far as I know. Locking them all up or giving out drugs they don't take isn't the answer.

While it's easier to blame someone or something else, with help, support, positive influences and role models and a bit of maturity they usually overcome those feelings, take responsibility and move on.

Heres an idea, why not create a convicted violent offender online site? While convicted sexual predators are required to sign up the police can't watch them constantly so public awareness helps prevention. Knowing that your neighbor is a convicted violent offender could be just as beneficial. At least those of us NOT living in denial might have an indication of who to keep an eye on. Sorry some people think these comments are hurtful. They are not intended to be. If these parents had more help maybe we wouldn't be here. If we don't discuss it and find better ways to deal with this as a society we are destined for it to be repeated over and over with varying consequences for all.

There is a lot of controversy over whether whether this is a true mental illness or whether we are legitimizing terrible behavior by including it as a DSM recognized illness: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/study-claims-1-12-teens-intermittent-explosive-disorder-171600093.html