Today in the Culture of Violent Male Entitlement

[Content Note: Guns; death; violent entitlement.]

Here is another story about which you probably won't hear anything outside local news:

Dane County [Wisconsin] Sheriff David Mahoney said Tuesday that Dean M. Sutcliffe, 17, was arrested on suspicion of two counts of first-degree intentional homicide...in a shooting that killed his former girlfriend's sister and a 39-year-old man [who was dating his former girlfriend's mother] Monday night.

The teen was arrested at the scene. Officials say he was upset after ending a relationship with a 15-year-old girl in the household. ...The former girlfriend was not home at the time of the shooting.

...Mahoney said Sutcliffe armed himself with a handgun from his home before going to the trailer park. He said deputies had previous contact with Sutcliffe, but nothing involving criminal charges. Mahoney said Sutcliffe is cooperating with investigators.

I am so sorry for this family, who lost two people at once in a most heinous way, and I feel so profoundly sad for the 15-year-old girl whose ex-boyfriend did this terrible thing to her family. It's not her fault, not even a little, but I can't imaging being the person who has to carry the burden of that, even if you know it isn't your fault. I hope this family has access to the resources it needs to process and heal.

It isn't clear what "previous contact" deputies had with Sutcliffe, or whether any of those interactions were related to his former relationship with this girl. I am certainly curious, however, whether those previous interactions were part of a pattern of escalation that ended with these murders.

In any case: Here is yet another dot in the series of dots we refuse to connect. Just another in a disconnected series of violently entitled young men who kill because women insisted they are not these men's property. Not a pattern. Not a reflection of toxic masculinity endemic to the culture. Not something we need to talk about.

Just another "crazy" man who has nothing to do with any of the other "crazy" men who kill women for the exact same reason.

And so the story goes.

[H/T to Eastsidekate.]