Ethan Layne Took Despair And Mental Health Issues To A New Level

This kid in Key West tried to use a tractor as a murder weapon.

Ted Bauer
5 min readMay 14, 2024

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Because the video does it the most visual justice, we can begin there:

This happened two Saturdays ago (May 4) in Key West, Florida. Around 6pm, this dude Ethan Layne — a groundskeeper at a local country club — just took this tractor, drove it to a college, destroyed a bunch of plumbing, flipped over some cars, and was apparently looking for a few people to target. 911 calls were made and the cops got there. He bashed the cop’s window out with the tractor, as seen in the image associated with this post, before he was subdued. In the video above, if you watch the arrest portion, Layne begins crying and apologizing, then has what I’d call a full “mental health break” and starts screaming about how people violated him and were owed vengenance and stuff.

He is currently being held (May 17 is his first court appearance) on three counts of attempted murder. I don’t know all Florida legal statutes, but I would assume he’s…

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Ted Bauer

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