Its telling, though, that there is an altercation in March during which the grandson is screaming uncontrollably in the street and the police are called. Then in April, the Ciprianos are beaten and murdered by their own son - a kid who attended the same Farmington alternative school [[it appears) as the Hoffman kid and then the Grandmother goes out and buys a gun and then in May this happens. Perhaps the similarities to the Cipriano situation made her afraid.