Recent world news has focused on the murder of freshman Haruka Weiser at The University of Texas Austin.  A surprise to many a few days after the murder they found the murderer and he is a homeless teenager.  Although we do criminalize homeless people we usually do not associate them as murderers.  Typically the crimes we think of are theft and different petty crimes, but not murder.  So the main question many people are asking is why?  She seems to be an innocent freshman college student so what happened to end her life on that given Sunday evening.

Another surprise about Meechail, the homeless seventeen year old, is that he was new to the city of Austin.  Most of the time when we see homeless we can associate them as being a part of that given community for most of their lives and rarely are new to the city.  Sadly, the autopsy can report that there was blunt trauma.  Many are concluding that this young boy had serious mental issues.  After police looked back into his possible history they see he was an angered foster child and he said, “What I want to leave behind is my name — I want them to know who Meechaiel Criner is.”  So the big question is still why?  Unfortunately we will probably never have an answer.