OPINION:
A 51-year-old Florida man, Don Spirit, was surely appropriately named, as he was most definitely an “evil spirit.”
Anyone who would kill his six grandchildren, aged 11 to 3 months, and his own daughter has to be one who is an evil person of the worst kind. He then killed himself Thursday.
Spirit was a time bomb waiting to explode. He had mental health problems, alcohol and drug problems, was prone to violence, had a history of arrests, and his 8-year-old son was killed by him under suspicious circumstances in a hunting accident 11 years ago.
It is unfortunate that a man with such a troubled past couldn’t have been confined to a mental institution years ago. If he had, maybe this horrific tragedy could have been averted.
KENNETH L. ZIMMERMAN
Huntington Beach, Calif.
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