After catfishing a teenage girl online, a former Virginia state trooper drove to California where he killed her mother and grandparents and set their home on fire, police say. NBC News’ Gabe Gutierrez has more on the chilling story.
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I don’t even want to live here anymore. I have a son and the way the world is is ridiculous.
All the cops that fd me up look like this moron
Back the blue he was afraid for his life
A wake up call to parents? How about a wake up call to police to screen their hires better.
#TRUSTNOONE
He was a former high school student too
This is america
Protect and serve!
While he obviously saw her in a light bulb went off a new switch turned on and he went from being a helper to a slaughter
Whoever hired this cop should be put in jail, so that’s 2 bad cops off the street
This guy was a lunatic hard to believe he was once a State Trooper good Lord!!!
This seems personal. Like he had a vendetta out against that family.
First red flag, he chose law enforcement as a career
It’s not girls fault she wanted only love but she wasn’t caution about meeting or talking with this guy r.i.p to them this is making me sick 🤧
Former huh? Sure is easy to say blue lives matter until they aren’t blue anymore.
They blame parents ? And not the pedo police ?
Dude got ventilated
Jesus. Where are the gods? How can this happen.
News anchors be like just another day at work. others are in distress when they see or hear things like this.
28? He looks 40+.
who says cops aren’t corrupt again!!
who does the background checks on ppl enforcing the law!!
Cop asked me yesterday why I don’t trust the police….huh…wonder why????
BACK THE BLUE!!!!!!!
The Mental Health of ALL those who Serve & Protect, MUST BE our country’s Greatest concern! Clearly they can’t do their job if they’re suffering from a mental illness… LetUsPray for the Children of Disobedience! Amen 🙏
What is happening to America
I so Hope that THESE STORIES, BEGIN YO OPEN THE EYES OF THOSE WHOM GET SO OUTRAGED, when ppl call for Police accountability. They are all just People after all and like every other profession you have ppl that qualify for the position, but are also deep down Disgusting Human beings. I hope there is No protecting this Sworn Officer of the Law.
⚠️ ” You Know, 5% sure 🤔 I SHOULD REALLY come wit a F😏n WARNING 🤐LABEL 🏷️⚠️
Yeah he looks like he would do that
“Cat” fishing?!…I thought those kind of terms weren’t allowed to be used in the media. And then want to apply that to such a heinous case like this!
My condolences to the family who experienced this horrible tragedy. 😢 💔
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Merry Christmas 🤟
Parents…PARENTS!!! NOT RIGHT, BACK THE BLUE they said. It is what sheep do.
No comment
That’s one old 28 year old man
The twists In their tongues only come out sounding like “they didn’t say no”
“To serve and protect”
It is really dangerous for police officers right now for this new station to make a thumbnail headline about the perp being a former state trooper. Former meaning he wasnt when he committed the crime. Seems like the media is playing tricks to divide the public some more. Prayers to the family🙏 May God welcome you with open arms.
Nbc churning up cop hate with headlines.
FORMER OFFICER MEANING HE WAS NO LONGER AN OFFICER AT THE TIME OF THE CRIME. STOP LETTING THE MEDIA MISINFORM YOU!
Maybe she shouldn’t have lead him on……..
Ban all public platforms
Lord Jesus help this young girl I pray for healing and peace in Jesus Name 🙏 my condolences
Is the teenager fault😡
Thank you to the sheriff deputy for getting rid of this scum bag of a person
People always say that “police save lives” when in reality they ruin more lives then they save, by pulling people over to fulfill their quotas for the month
Sadly, there isn’t much you can do about it. Thing is, cops are humans, too meaning there are racists, psychopaths, sociopaths, just about all kinds of demons among them. A racist cop will not treat minorities as good as they would with someone of the same race as the cop. I bet this sort of stuff is going to happen every once in a while. What’s next? A former firefighter catfishes and rapes a teenager he met on an dating app.
But they won’t talk about banning semiautomatic weapons for police officers.
My heart goes out to yhe family. Something doesn’t add up though. There was no way he could ever get away with or be with the girl. Why did he do this?
James P. Steyer…. REALLY?!?!? I can’t believe that THIS INCIDENT is the one that should make people open their eyes about what their kids are doing on-line. There’s been thousands and probably tens of thousands already and currently happening. It’s disgusting this happens in America. The borders SHOULD be secured already. We have so many sickos like that deputy, homeless people, hungry people, false news stories, pedophiles, rapists, school shooters etc… People with brains, hearts and integrity need to step up and be heard. Media men and women like yourself should promote this. SHOULD HAVE BEEN PROMOTING this for years. If the media and politicians weren’t chasing the$$$, and worked to strengthen the population of our country… We’d be on a better path. Glad your face was plastered as a pseudo spokesperson. You are not the only one saying hey look at me. My heart goes out to all the families involved. SMH sad, sad, sad
Yes put guilt on parents. You sick swine of a human. Can’t trust the police, can’t even trust a state trooper. This is incredibly sad. My heart goes out to the victim(s).
He looks like a catfish
What was going on in his head he snapped. Prayers for this poor family
1000s of cases have changed nothing speaker or nbc and you know it won’t your just trying to put more fear and separations into people and community. I see your evil through others evil it’s truly discusting
Here come the Karens….
Police departments and sheriffs department never hire the high school athlete who has morale courage and believes in God instead they hire the wierdo guy who cant get woman to save his life !
They also hire the loosers . You know people that stand in the school hallway for a hour while a active shooter excuted third graders.
2012 NBC News: _To Catch a Predator_
2022 NBC News: _To Let a Predator Catch You_
2032 NBC News: _To Become a Predator_
Get rid of the internet and it gets rid of scammers and catfishing
Really that’s what you got Parents tell your kids don’t talk to strangers cause I got maybe this impunity thing can make power hungry mad men
Fire all cops
The fault here is at the feet of the police department, ALL departments across America, who hire these maniacs after just a six week police academy training course… Uh-freaking believable!
Oh God look at the dude first photo geez dude looks like a creepy maniac
No, this shouldn’t be a wake up call for parents or children. By placing the onus on individual parents and children, lawmakers and regulators can effectively throw their hands up and say ‘well it was your own fault for not paying close enough attention’. The solution here is to acknowledge the systems in place that allow dangerous criminals with positions of power to abuse the same citizens they’ve supposedly sworn to protect. We can’t anticipate the perfect storm. What we can do, is face the fact that without legislation to make this sort of crime much more difficult to commit, evil people will just have a much easier time doing evil things.
I hate to be a boomer here but keep dem under age kids away from the Internet. The girl just witnessed her parents being killed…….it’s not a phase mom, he’s a cop
Where’s Chris Hansen when you need him smh
Shouldn’t have given out your addy. I’m glad people are holding that silly teenage girl responsible.
“Stop victim blaming”
Lmao.
When you leave your garage open and it gets robbed, it’s your fault.
Psycho
Blue lives matter?
The police munches skipped this video
I suspect this was his plan from jump-street: To become a state trooper, and have the resources to be able to hunt this girl down. If he’s a fairly new trooper who has only been on the force for a few months, it’d def be a real possibility.
Why do people have to be so sick
People like this always get a job in law enforcement he’s not the first or last every city has one of these guys working for them
Exactly why folks need to mind they business!!!!
Gov really needs to figure out a way to regulate social media for underaged kids. The things they have access to is horrific and they need to be protected so things like this don’t happen
VERY TRUE PROPHECY ALL COPS ARE TRUE SINNERS IN REAL LIFE TODAY ⛪️ 💯.
ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO. NOW ALL YOU NEED TO LISTEN ! THIS IS A PERFECT REASON FOR YOU SO CALLED PARENTS NEED TO GET YOUR KIDS OFFLINE STOP WHINNING ABOUT IT AND ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. TAKE THERE PHONES AWAY ETC ETC. START ACTING LIKE A PARENT !
This demon was in law enforcement how do they hire these disgusting people. 🐷s back each other no matter what they have a code but they will be judged by God almighty and there will be no where to run they think their gods drunk on power but there’s only one God Jehovah creator of all . God bless that poor girl.
They only hire the best at police stations across our great nation. Parents be aware of police officers posing as teenagers online.
Probably the most unbelievable headline I’ve ever read.
Wow.. cops are crooks and bad people, I didn’t know that..
Yeah be safe because a Police officer might catfish you
Wtf
More often than not, when Officers spend careers around human trash they become trash themselves.
Cops are perverts with badges
She got her family killed
Sickening how ppl are blaming a teenager girl. When you that young, you become gullible to everything & anything. I’m pretty sure she saw no signs of red flags coming out of it. Now she has to live with the burden of loosing her entire family, GUARDIANS at that. It’s so heartbreaking. I don’t understand why are there ppl like this in this world. It legit makes me sick to my stomach. I feel so bad for her man. I hope baby girl finds peace in her life regardless how long it takes. Praying for her 😣
Doesn’t matter about the uniform that we visually see, underneath it is still a regular person capable of anything as the majority of humans are. Even the finest representation can be a lunatic plain and simple. You can’t trust anyone.
Pigs departments love dirty Caucasians pigs 🐖
A police officer did this. The law enforcement did this. They will not tell you the truth. A active cop not a former cop. Wake up people, we need to put a leash on law enforcement. If he didn’t get caught police would’ve protected him
A wake up call..yea there is a lesson to learn hear don’t trust the police..they have ruined that trust over the years, I don’t care about the good cops because the bad ones far over shadow them
Back the blue guys!?!?
Become a police officer you have to take a mental evaluation. How did he pass? What are they looking for?
Wtf
That poor girl lost her entire family for nothing I’m glad he’s dead but that doesn’t change the fact that she’s going to blame herself for the rest of her life.
Wake up. Its the Cops we have to worry about now
Jesus her life a movie fr
3 first names, law enforcement, white male, online, dating app, pretending to be someone else; he fits the profile of a psycho mass killer start profiling these people they are one offs anymore. They have statics behind them for proof.