We've posted later articles on this case confirming that this was a murder-suicide committed by dad KEVEN BRISTOL. However, this earlier article clearly suggests that this was a crime motivated by child custody. News articles do not consistently repeat the same information, so that makes it really hard to identify father-committed murders involving custody situations.
Notice the ultra-stupid neighbors. If you can be a "good dad" and still blow out the brains of a 4-year-old child, then what the heck do you have to do to finally be called out as a bad dad? To call a father like this "good" is a slap in the face to the honestly good fathers out there who work a steady job and support their wives and families through thick and through thin--and don't kill, maim, rape, or mutilate anybody in the process.
Not till we get to nearly to the end of this article are we told the parents were breaking up, and Dad reportedly told someone about having to do a lot of "work" to get custody. It's obvious he didn't want custody in terms of wanting the responsibility of raising a child. He just wanted total control, which is typical of the killer father personality. Just wanted to shut the mother out forever. Murder suited his ends just as well as an ongoing custody battle, maybe even better. Since a gory bloodbath slaughter of a child is a Final Solution and all. And of course, he no doubt knew that such a move would deeply wound and "punish" the surviving mother, which is usually part of the a primary aim of these guys as well.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/31036457/detail.html
Coroner: Thornton Father, Son Died From Gunshots Authorities Won't Say If Father's iInjuries Self-Inflicted
By Lance Hernandez and Thomas Hendrick
POSTED: 10:13 am MDT May 9, 2012
UPDATED: 9:17 am MDT May 10, 2012
THORNTON, Colo. -- The Adams County Coroner has confirmed that a Thornton father and his 4-year-old son found shot at their home on High Street died from gunshots.
But the Coroner would not indicate whether the father’s injuries were self-inflicted.
In a brief statement, the coroner said Kevin Bristol, 30, and his son, Michael, died from gunshots after an early Tuesday shooting at the family's home. The boy died Tuesday and the father died Wednesday morning at Denver Health Medical Center.
While the autopsies have been completed, police and the coroner official said information on the manner of death would not be released until Thursday.
According to investigators, Bristol’s wife, Carmen, was home when the shootings occurred. She called 911.
"The only thing that we’ve ruled out is that the boy didn’t do it," said Officer Matt Barnes of the Thornton Police Department.
Investigators returned to the house on Wednesday and removed several items that may help them piece together what happened inside.
Michael and Kevin were found in the family’s home at 9270 High St., near Eppinger Boulevard, just after midnight Tuesday.
Friends and neighbors have placed flowers, balloons and teddy bears alongside the fence in front of the Bristol home.
Shannon Donovan and Nathan Chatterton were among those paying their respects.
“It’s tragic,” Donovan said. “It’s a big loss because not everybody is a great father like he was,” Chatterton added.
Both friends say they’re anxious to hear what police say happened. “I think a lot of people have an idea in their mind what happened,” Donovan said. “You don’t ever want to accuse anybody or anything, but in my heart of hearts, I don’t think Kevin could have done anything to his son.”
Donovan said the Bristols had a complicated relationship and didn’t always get along. “I know they stuck together for their son,” she said. “He was a priority. If they ever got into a fight, one (of the parents) would choose to leave the house.”
Another friend, Joe Estrada, brought some balloons and a stuffed bear with a miniature motorcycle to place at the memorial.
Estrada told 7NEWS that he spoke to Kevin Bristol on Friday and that Bristol said he and his wife were breaking up.
Estrada said Bristol told him he had a lot of work to do, “basically to try to get custody of his son.”
Neighbor Bonny Benbrook reminisced about the young boy today.
“He loved motorcycles,” she said.
Benbrook said that when the Bristols first moved in, Michael came over and saw her motorcycle. “He would say, ‘Bonny, motorcycle,’ she said.
Benbrook said that after Michael’s dad got a motorcycle, she would see them riding together up and down the street.
She too is anxiously waiting the outcome of the investigation. “I can’t see Kevin shooting Mikey. He loved that little boy,” she said.
Before Kevin Bristol died, his extended family issued this statement through the hospital: "Kevin is a wonderful father who loves his family deeply. This is an impossibly difficult time for our family and we ask for people to respect our privacy. We are devastated by these tragic events and greatly appreciate the prayers for our family."
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OMG this is right near where I live [I'm the disabled spine injury-living with severe physcho who has record in CO of abusing disabled or making women physically and mentally ill then using the System to further abuse and criminalize them [using the system to murder them actually]
ReplyDeleteand I can already tell you what will happen, they'll blame the wife. And of course, the good father so they say, any d.v. will be minimized and Yes that is Exactly how the people-neighbors are here. Any woman that asserts any human rights is deemed mental,
and it's getting worse. And the system is all about blaming and pathologizing [sic] the woman, always making excuses for the men. Father's Rights is big here, and they are judges, lawyers, board members of both DV shelters and CPS and the Mental Health, both family courts and criminal. This is why our drug use among females is so ludicrously high here...
as well as the conviction rate [and trafficked rape within prison system, and yes it IS trafficking, one case, from Hawaii women sent to CO after being raped there only to be raped again here in private prisons.
And our death rate of children, rape and force drugging is extremely high here in foster care [there is no audit system] and well--what can I say,
I've myself have given up, there is absolutely no hope in CO for DV victims, if they are poor, woman of color, etc., or if they think you are a threat because you are educated and are on to the abuses of the system,
worse is how the system itself is hijacking children and teens and raping/abusing them in the system, as well as force drugging. And it's all being done with impunity.
Reading this news article, scares me because I know what they are like and Thornton is horrid, I live in nearby suburb and it's the same county I am in. They make bank with the whole charade of DV [and it's a charade] while then criminalizing the women, blaming them for being victims, rather than holding men accountable OR if they do hold them accountable, it's the slap on wrist and diversion for anger management classes...but NO so for women charged with any crime related to DV or god forbid, self defense, that's not allowed here. There are tons of lawyers for father's rights, good luck finding ANYONE who'll fight for women in DV situations...and the attitude of CPS here regarding DV IS THIS:
ReplyDeleteAND I QUOTE: "women who are in Domestic violence we are finding are mentally ill and brain scans show there is chemical imbalance therefore they need drugs, etc"
that, THAT is what I was told, in spite of the documents of permanent restraining orders by two other women against my husband, his DV arrest, the fact that CPS in another county was called on his ex by him and harassed his ex wife until She did become mentally ill and is now on bi-polar meds [has been for years because of HIS ABUSE] and now she's practically a vegetable,
that's what CO did to her, and then the boys, were groomed by the father [my husband] and both have criminal records, does CO care, hell no. Why it's the good ole boys club here, both liberals and conservatives, if it's liberals it's the 'women why complain about rape why don't you know that's what's So sexually liberating and besides you can just leave' and if it's the conservatives it's 'why don't you just submit and know thy place'
you can't win here. And if it's culture, then it's the 'cultural relativism',
women are screwed here as well as children, but now the media won't show that. They'll show a Progressive face, it's all about how great CO is about doing something about DV [never mind over 23 percent of women in Boulder were arrested for DV crimes for self defense since Fast Track and they get to be retraumitized as defendants while abusers get to beat the crap out of them with blessing from the State].
And if they CHILDREN tell CPS about abuse, then it's off to the mental, you need drugs, and if they kill you [or one boy who committed suicide at the age of 7 in foster care] well, wooops, it was the GALS who missed it or the Social Worker or well, another statistic, fell through
and the same ole b.s. promises on media by good ole governors and the like, how they are going to Do something about the high rate of deaths of children here in foster care or those left with abusers, which of course, means
pouring MORE MONEY into a system that is already corrupt, socially engineered to penalize and even slowly kill victims,
while the good ole like mafia racket, makes KACHING, BANK. $$$$$$$$$$
[CO has horrid rate of cop brutality too, it's like with the rest, wink, wink and wink]
it's no coincidence, CO and KANSAS are neighbors.
Jane