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BELLEFONTAINE -- The questions hang over this rural community of 14,000 souls like an oppressive summer haze.
Relatives and friends of 18-year-old Scott Moody say they still can't believe the quiet farm youth was capable of the May 29 shooting rampage that left six people dead on the Shafer family farm.See the full content of this document
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Town, Experts Bafed by Motive in Logan County Slayings
Some even want the sheriff to quit pointing the finger at Moody until there is evidence beyond the teen's having been found dead holding the murder weapon -- a .22-caliber rifle -- that he apparently turned on himself at the end.
Experts on teen violence, too, are baffled by the case. They say Moody doesn't appear to fit the typical pattern of the isolated, cult-influenced youths who have pulled the trigger in other recent multiple shootings.He wasn't a loner with a taste for Nazism, like Jeff Weise, the 16-year-old who shot his grandparents before firing on his high school in Red Lake, Minn., and killing seven others.He wasn't teased relentlessly, like Charle...See the full content of this document
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