Police: Boy Says He Killed Parents Because He Let Them Down

[Dope Nose]

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Police: Boy Says He Killed Parents Because He Let Them Down

POSTED: 10:57 am EDT September 12, 2007
UPDATED: 12:49 pm EDT September 12, 2007

FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- Police documents said a Fort Pierce teenager told detectives he killed his parents because he didn't want to disappoint them anymore.

According to documents released Tuesday, Jacob Brighton, 16, said he shot and killed his parents last month because he always felt like a disappointment to them, he did not have a job when his parents wanted him to, smoked marijuana and did not share the same "qualities or interests" as his father.

According to the documents, Brighton told police he began thinking about shooting his parents on Aug. 2 while he and his father, 47-year-old Richard Brighton, were watching television together in a bedroom of their home in western Fort Pierce.

"Then I started thinking like, oh, I, the gun's right here," Brighton told a St. Lucie County sheriff's detective, describing the handgun that police said was hidden under his father's pillow. "I could do it. I really didn't want to."

Jacob Brighton said he began to think about how he felt like a disappointment to his family and what it would be like if both of his parents were dead, according to the documents.

"I just remember I was thinking ... he is always disappointed in me and wanted to be who he is. I can't live my own life. So there's nobody, now there's nobody to be disappointed in me, try to make me lead their life," he told police.

The documents said the 16-year-old told detectives he retrieved the gun from under his father's pillow and began planning the best way to shoot his parents -- figuring the easiest way would be to do it while his parents were in the same room.

"I thought that would be the perfect time," Brighton told detectives a few hours after his parents were found dead in their home.

"Perfect time to what?" the detective asked.

"You know," Brighton replied.

"To shoot them?" the detective asked the teen.

"I don't like saying it. Yeah," Brighton responded.

The teen then described how he walked into the kitchen, shot his dad three times in the back, then shot his mother, 46-year-old Penny Brighton, while she began to run away, police said in the report.

Brighton pleaded not guilty after being charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Brighton faces a possible sentence of life in prison if convicted.

His lawyer, Darren Shull, said Brighton experienced traumatic events that would "shock and disturb the community," but Shull would not say more.

Brighton is being held without bond in the St. Lucie County Jail.

 

[Matt]

ECHOSTATION!?!?! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?!?

 

[DorkyFresh]

the kid is a failure....so instead of killing himself, he kills his parents.



he failed at doing what a REAL failure does and that's pretty bad...

 

[Mister J]

ECHOSTATION!?!?! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?!?

t:

We never did find out what that nonsense was about.


As far as the whacked kid in the article goes, I hope his ass gets locked up forever ...forever, ever.

 

[Darthphere]

the kid is a failure....so instead of killing himself, he kills his parents.



he failed at doing what a REAL failure does and that's pretty bad...

Pretty much, though it would've been awesome that in an ultimate act of irony he had failed to kill his parents.

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

Why the hell would you keep a gun under a pillow?

 

[jaguarr]

Thanks for posting this bit of electronic birth control.

jag

 

[Dope Nose]

Why the hell would you keep a gun under a pillow?

 

[SuperFerret]

I bet he's making them REAL proud now.

 

[kane9321]

the lil bastard should have shot himself...lock him up with the big boyz

 

[DV8]

the kid is a failure....so instead of killing himself, he kills his parents.



he failed at doing what a REAL failure does and that's pretty bad...

that's exactly what I was thinking . . . wow, this kid really is a fuack up . . . and selfish, at that . . .

 

[Immortalfire]

My lord, how sad.

 

[TNC9852002]

Sounds like a good backstory for a comic book villain...

-TNC

 

[amazingfantasy15]

That's just sick, I really can't understand kids like this. What kind of f'ed up thinking does this come from?

 

[Logan's Runt]

ECHOSTATION!?!?! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?!?

This is the first thing I thought, too.

 

[carrrnuttt]

So.

Instead of simply his parents and relatives looking at him as a failure, he decided to step up and get the disapproval of the rest of the sane universe instead?

 

[Erzengel]

ECHOSTATION!?!?! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?!?

I was going to say Ice-Man but good call back.

 

[Symbiotic]

Shoulda killed himself instead of his parents.

 

[chamber-music]

sounds like one of those whiney emotional kids that need their parents approval.

Heck if my parents said they where disappointed in me I would laugh in their face. Someone should of told the brat to live his life for himself and not for the hopes and praises of others

 

[The Evolutionist]

ECHOSTATION!?!?! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?!?

That was literally the first thing that came to my mind, has he been around recently?

 

[Darthphere]

He's been on today.

 

[Manic]

This is why we need psychiatric drugs, Tom Cruise.

 

[Apollo]

he should have just killed himself like a normal person

 

[AhabTheArab]

That's just sick, I really can't understand kids like this. What kind of f'ed up thinking does this come from?

sounds like he already had a problem with his mental state, and his parents or at least his father, sounded somewhat abusive, and combine that with being a 16 year old... i get it, i wouldn't recommend it, but i get it.

 

[huskerwebhead]

Sounds like a selfish emo kid to me. I like how he tries to make it sound like he was doing his parents a favor by offing them...so they wouldn't be disappointed in him any more. And then says later he just didn't want someone telling him how to run his life.

Ironic, that now he's going to be in prison and he's going to be told how to run his life for the rest of his life.