Alcoholic father who took his son drinking with him. Drug-addicted brother who put up the family’s guns for collateral. Mother clearly in denial.
A very sad picture emerges from a Seattle Times investigation into the troubled family life of Aaron Ybarra, the 26-year-old charged with shooting students, one fatally, at Seattle Pacific University in June:
His father, Ambrose, had five drunken-driving convictions. While Aaron struggled with alcoholism and dabbled in drugs, his younger brother Joel developed a heroin addiction, which may have been connected to the disappearance of the family’s guns, according to records.
Concerned observers had earlier told their mother to move the eight handguns and rifles out of the house, but she allowed the weapons to remain, records show. …
Aaron told his counselor in August 2012 that Joel was in his 14th month of recovery from heroin use. Aaron admitted to dabbling in marijuana, cocaine and amphetamines.
His father blew through a relative’s trust fund:
Despite the legal troubles, Ambrose was appointed in February 2009 to oversee a trust fund established for his wife’s cousin, a 64-year-old Bremerton man who is developmentally disabled. …
Court records indicated that Ambrose, starting as early as March 2009, spent about $400,000 from the trust for his own purposes and kept minimal accounting records while his disabled relative lived in disarray with boxes floor to ceiling and “swarms of ants” throughout his trailer.
Read the whole sad story here, and The College Fix‘s previous feature on SPU here.
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