Spanish teenager, 15, held for killing family over school grades

[Sherman A1]

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Spain on suspicion of shooting dead his parents and ten-year-old brother following a row over bad school grades, police said.

The incident occurred on Tuesday evening in a rural area just outside Elche, about 20km from the southeastern port city of Alicante.

It was not discovered until last night by a relative who turned up to check on them, a police spokesman said.

"The mother's sister came to the house because she had heard nothing from the family and that's when her nephew told her he'd killed his father, mother and brother," he said, saying she had called the police who confirmed finding three bodies inside the house.

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2022/0212/1279433-elche-spain/

[malaise]

1. Madness is everywhere

Grades will now be the least of his problems