Quantcast

Editorial: Behind the massacre

By The Times/Ledger

Someday someone will write a book about John Taylor. The writer, we hope, will help the world to understand what went wrong in the mind of a man who led, as far as anyone knows, a normal, honest life for 30 years, then started out on a life of crime that allegedly ended in the massacre of five innocent people.

Until then we will have to settle for the realization that if found guilty Taylor and his alleged accomplice, Carig Godineaux, 30, will be punished severely for the robbery and killings they are charged with carrying out at the Flushing Wendy's.

But there is another accomplice in this story yet to be identified. Someone sold Mr. Taylor the handgun he allegedly used to carry out this execution.

In all likelihood, the person selling the gun illegally did not know what Mr. Taylor had in mind. He most certainly did not know that Taylor might be a walking time bomb ready to explode. And he probably didn