Republican candidate for governor of Colorado, Victor Marx, has sparked a backlash after admitting in an interview that he was forced to kill his stepfather when he was seven years old. He also refused to say whether he had killed people as an adult, responding with the question “Does it matter?”.
During an interview with 9News reporter Kyle Clark, Marx was asked if the person he killed as a child was his only victim. After a silence of about 10 seconds, he said, “As a child, yes, without a doubt. But I’ve been in other situations where, perhaps, people have died as a result of my protection in other places. I don’t keep a number and I don’t have a picture.”
When the journalist asked him directly if he had killed people as an adult, the Republican candidate did not give a clear answer and only said “does it matter?”. Marx, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and head of a humanitarian organization, has alleged for years that his abusive stepfather forced him to shoot a man to death in Mendenhall, Mississippi, when he was just seven years old.
However, local authorities in Mississippi have stated that they have found no evidence or leads on an unsolved murder that would match this account. He is one of the Republican candidates in the race for governor of Colorado, along with Barbara Kirkmeyer and Scott Bottoms.
His statements have sparked great debate in American public opinion, while opponents and analysts have questioned the credibility of his accounts and the impact they may have on the election campaign. /Telegraph