Yay! More good news! Scumbag Brian Kennedy pleads guilty

This is nice news to come back to, even though I would have liked to have seen him tried and convicted on all counts (then executed).

Brian Kennedy, the pothead from Fairfax, VA who cared more about being a buddy to his psychotic cop-murdering kid than he did about being a parent pled guilty to two charges revolving around the weapons he gave his son and the marijuana that he smoked and gave his son. Sadly that have not charged his wife Margaret, who was equally guilty in my opinion. Both of them sucked as parents and human beings and two good police officers died because of it.

From the Washington Post:

The two charges each carry a maximum 10-year prison sentence. But both sides agreed that federal sentencing guidelines suggest a range of 37 to 46 months in prison.

The original indictment alleged that Brian Kennedy smoked marijuana with his son and his son's teenage friends and that Michael Kennedy's mother, Margaret, took the teens to a shooting range to practice firing assault rifles. Michael Kennedy referred to the AK-47-style gun his father had bought as "his gun," the indictment said, even showing friends how to use it. That gun was one of the weapons the teenager had with him when he left home the afternoon of the police station shooting.

Brian Kennedy's attorney, Jonathan Shapiro, said his client had not returned to his family's home, where he lived with his wife, daughter and son until May 8 of last year, "because of the memories of the loss of his son, who was spiraling into insanity and did this horrible thing."

Shapiro called the episode "a tragedy for everybody involved" but said Brian Kennedy "is paying a huge price for, in essence, being a smoker of marijuana and owning firearms, which he did do. He was in no way responsible for the deaths of the officers, and he grieves for them as he does the death of his son."

And you'd better believe that I disagree with their attorney's last statement. Brian Kennedy was as responsible as if he's pulled into that lot and began firing himself. Both parents were. They knew what their kid was capable of, and Margaret was there when he carjacked the owner of the stolen van that he drove to the assault, according to some police sources of mine, and she actually begged the van's owner not to call the police!




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