'Nazi' Teen Who Shot Girlfriend's Parents Is Mentally Disturbed, His Relative Says

A 17-year-old teenager was charged with fatally shooting his girlfriend’s parents in their home in northern Virginia on Dec. 22. The suspect who was not identified because of his age fatally shot 46-year-old Scott Fricker and his wife Buckley Kuhn-Fricker, 43, in the community of Reston.

Authorities revealed the incident was a murder-suicide as the suspect shot himself after he killed the couple. The teenager is currently in the hospital with life-threatening conditions, New York Post reported.

Fairfax County authorities announced Saturday they filed charges against the teen. Latest reports revealed the boy was said to be mentally disturbed, as disclosed by an anonymous relative of the teen. She confirmed he suffered from a mental illness, as reported by an NBC owned-and-operated television station, NBC4 News.

The parents of the girl were concerned their daughter’s boyfriend was a Neo-Nazi after they discovered his alarming tweets and messages, according to a report in the Washington Post. A neighbor of the suspect said residents of the area also confronted the boy’s parents in late October after they suspected he mowed a 40-feet swastika across the grass of a community field, Daily Mail reported.

At the time, the parents of the boy told the neighbors they would seek treatment for him. The report also stated the depiction of the hate symbol in an otherwise safe and family-friendly community made people living in the vicinity quite fearful as they dreaded having someone in their midst who was capable of “irrational behavior.” The community later also re-mowed the complete garden to obscure the swastika.

Kuhn-Fricker had emailed the principal of the Fairfax County private school, which the suspect attended, with attachments containing numerous images of the account that “retweeted missives praising Hitler, supporting Nazi book burnings, calling for ‘white revolution’, making derogatory comments about Jews and featuring an illustration of a man hanging from a noose beneath a slur for gay people.”

In private messages, Kuhn-Fricker claimed the boyfriend responded to a photo of a candy shop that featured a display of a dreidel by writing, “ima run in there with my swastika armband right now.”

After these messages and tweets were revealed, the teenage girl’s family intervened to try to convince her to stay away from the boyfriend to which she agreed, the Washington Post reported.

But things did not turn out well for the family, as the couple discovered the boyfriend in their daughter’s bedroom one day after the break-up, according to a detective’s account. Reports stated Fricker asked the suspect to get out of the house and to never return, at which point he pulled out a gun and shot the couple. He then shot himself in the head.

The teenager was charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of both the parents. No news about his condition has been revealed yet.