Mesac Damas Analysis

Mesace Damas, a could blooded killer out of Naples, Fl who killed his 5 kids and wife by slaughtering their necks. Who shortly after ran away to Haiti. His sister-in-law contacted officials due to the fact that she hadn’t heard from them in a while. When deputies went to go investigate the scene they found a dead body and as they progressed through the house they 5 more bodies that were brutally slaughtered. They tracked Mesac’s GMC SUV at the Miami International Airport, and sure enough they found out he had fled to Haiti.
What made Damas due such a horrific thing? Well let’s at this through the world of Psychology. Moral reasoning tells us that Mesac Damas was probably thinking somewhere along the post-conventional stage, which is when you start taking appreciation for
the underlying purposes served by laws.
In other words he was questioning and challenging the law. But what made him challenge the law? Let’s look at this through some of the major perspectives of psychology. Let’s start with the psychodynamic view. Was there something that happened in his childhood that could’ve been a factor to his brutal crime? He did grow up in an abusive home with an alcoholic dad, and was always fighting with his brothers and sisters. Maybe this affected him and caused him to permanently become violent. The behavioral perspective tells us that environment reinforces behavior. Well maybe it was the very violent and dangerous Haitian ghetto that he grew up in that could have reinforced his angry behavior and caused him to commit such an act. The Sociocultural perspective tells us that the social media or maybe cultural influence could have affected him. We could trace back to what music he
listens to, maybe what he watches, or if he does, what video games he plays. If he listens to violent music, watches and plays violent movies and video games this could have been a huge factor. Almost every killing that they’ve traced back to has had this big factor included in. Maybe if we look through the cognitive perspective which is to trace how his mind process information we’ll find something in the way it works that’s not usual. Maybe he has a mental illness, maybe a tragedy or something in his life changed the way he thinks.
Maybe Damas was on some kind of physco-active drug that caused a chemical reaction in his brain and changed his conscious awareness, mood, or perception? He was known to be typically a very good person. People who knew him only had good things to say about him. This is why I’m lead to be believe that this man was defiantly not in a right state of mind at the time of the incident.
Perhaps there was a memory in Damas that he kept to himself from some point in his life that caused him to do what he did. It could have been something that his dad did in his childhood or perhaps something his wife did to him that he had been holding on for so long that he finally blew up.
When Damas was captured and admitted to killing he said that he was going to kill himself but instead he killed his family. This guy had to have had some physiological problems of some sort. One of the reporters who was outside the house quickly asked him while he was getting transported to the sheriffs car why he had killed his family and his response was “only God knows.” This guy was not all that there at all. It doesn’t take much to figure that out all you got to do is stare into his dark eyes and you’ll find out his eyes are as dark as his soul.
Psychology helps us understand a variety of things around our world better, than we do already. It helps us describe, explain, predict, and change events that go on around our world. Such as we did today in Mesac Damas’s case. Mesac Damas’s continues to be on trial to this day, and is said to have gone even crazier after the incident.