Who would have thought...NRA President's Son
Capitol Hill Blue ^ | December 17, 2002 | CINDY MORRIS
Posted on December 17, 2002 10:13:53 PM EST by arj
David Michael Keene, the prominent national conservative activist's son charged in a road rage shooting on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, was institutionalized with "severe emotional problems" seven times between the ages of 8 and 13, his mother said Tuesday.
"He's had a continuing problem with impulse control, and an exaggerated belief that he was in more danger than he was in at times, causing him to respond in a way that was more excessive or out of line with what was going on," Keene's mother, Diana Carr, told reporters outside the U.S. District Court in Alexandria.
Keene fired a pistol at another driver during an apparent road rage encounter on the parkway earlier this month. The bullet shattered the back window of the other car and lodged in the driver's seat, just inches from the driver's head.
He is being held without bail by federal authorities pending a grand jury investigation into the incident. Keene appeared before a federal judge Tuesday to try and be released on bail but the judge denied the request.
Keene's fiancé, who was in the car with him, said the gun accidentally went off when she tried to grab it away from him.
"The discharge of the weapon was a complete accident -- we're convinced of that. In no time in my son's history has he ever hurt anybody," Carr said.( sound familiar)
Keene was the director of online communications for the American Conservative Union and is the son of ACU chairman David A. Keene, an outspoken supporter of gun ownership and a member of the National Rifle Association board of directors.
The elder Keene has not spoken publicly about his son's arrest. His sister, Kerry Keene, told Capitol Hill Blue recently that "the media does not know the full story" of the incident that landed her brother in jail.
AI
