Did a Computer Virus Set Aaron Kyle Huff Off?
Investigators looking for a motive in this week’s Capitol Hill mass murder may not have found a real motive, but they may have found what set him off. They don’t seem to realize it, however.
Seattle police detectives investigating Saturday’s Capitol Hill shootings have been unable to open Kyle Huff’s computer but are not optimistic it will provide a motive for the mass killing.
Police confiscated two computer hard drives, one installed recently, from Huff’s North Seattle apartment, but computer viruses have prevented police from retrieving data, said Capt. Tag Gleason, head of the violent-crimes unit.
“It’s a piece of information we’re looking at. We’re not banking on it as a smoking gun,” Gleason said.
Huff, a 28-year-old pizza-delivery driver, gunned down six people at a Capitol Hill party Saturday morning before shooting himself. It was the worst mass killing in Seattle in 23 years.
For a person who is already angry and feeling out of control in his life, not being able to make his computer work might just be the straw that broke the camel’s back.
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