Emma Watson Nowling took a quick break from soccer practice Thursday night to greet a man walking by the sidelines.

"Little Emma went up and gave the guy a hug," Emma's soccer coach, Mario Scicluna, said.

Later that night, that man, Timothy Nelson Obeshaw, shot 7-year-old Emma and her mother, 37-year-old Sharon Elizabeth Watson, in the parking lot of the Taylor Sportsplex before turning his 9mm pistol on himself, according to Taylor police. Authorities described Obeshaw as a family friend.

Emma died from her injuries. Watson is in serious condition at a local hospital, police said.

Police said family members described the 57-year-old Obeshaw — who had lived with Watson and her boyfriend at their home in Belleville before recently moving to a home in Taylor — as mentally unstable. A motive, though, remains unclear, according to police.

"Police found evidence that Obeshaw believed someone was trying to perform mind control on him," according to a news release from the Taylor Police Department


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I will include ofundme information in the thread when I get it,,,,,

as a mother, I just cant imagine,,,,,,,,

Why do you think it was mental illness.

Because of this?

That's kinda thin and seems to be part of an agenda by the writer of the article.

"Family members"...how many?
Was it just aunt Sally because of one thing at Thanksgiving?
Or was it 20 people in the family who kept saying "that guys mentally off, you need to stay away from him?"
Or was it one person in the family, who then said so to others, and they just agreed?

And what do they mean by mentally unstable?
Can't keep a job? Talks to himself? Laughs inappropriately?
What criteria are the family members using?

What exactly was the evidence police found to lead them to believe that Obeshaw truly believed someone was trying to mind control him?
Rolls of aluminum foil and printouts on how to make a hat?
An open webpage to an online forum talking about government conspiracy?
A paperback copy of The Manchurian Candidate?
A signed affidavit "I of sound mind and body attest to attempts at being mind controlled?"


I mean it's just as easy to say since things like Fox News or CNN or MSNBC or Rush Limbaugh are pushing the "mental illness is the problem! Not guns!" that people start looking for ways to make sure it's labeled under mental illness.


It wasn't so long ago articles and stories were being printed about how in the not so distant future, like when the next DSM manual comes out, more than 50% of the population could/will be diagnosed with a "mental illness."


Jumping on the "mental illness" bandwagon is a mental illness tragedy.

This event is just a tragedy of seemingly unnecessary deaths.

you are right cire

this '"Police found evidence that Obeshaw believed someone was trying to perform mind control on him," according to a news release from the Taylor Police Department ' gives me the impression he was mentally ill

but there is no confirmation and I could have it wrong

and like all those who immediately suspected muslims in another such jump to conclusions, I could be right


,,,,,dont care really which it is,,


if he wasnt mentally ill , its still a tragedy being these people were kind and inclusive of him,,,

A guy shoots a seven year old and her mother. That, in anybodies' book should be the definition of mental illness.