Reply #62: Wow. Some interesting info in that. [View All]

[TexasObserver]

"At St. John the Baptist, Romero sang in the choir and his wife had also signed up. The couple spent two years preparing for marriage, and when they tied the knot in September the "church was packed," Sauter said.

"Because both their parents were divorced, they wanted to make sure their marriage lasted until death, and it did," Sauter said.

Romero had full custody of the 8-year-old boy and the marriage made Tiffany Romero his stepmother. The boy's mother had visited St. Johns from Mississippi last weekend and returned to Arizona after the shootings that took place Wednesday, said Apache County Attorney Brad Carlyon."

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Those facts suggest the mother's visit to see the boy may have been some kind of catalyst for his actions. Maybe he saw it as a way to join her and leave his father and his step mother.