Yes exactly. Teenage humans frequently do monumentally stupid and destructive stuff because they're bored or want to impress peers. Everything on a continuum from egging and TP'ing houses to keying cars, graffiti/tagging, breaking windows on abandoned buildings, shoplifting, vandalizing public structures, breaking into cars, stealing cars and joyriding, to actual gang murder.
Humans don't handle news story with neutral actors well. We're very conditioned to expect motivated overtly good/bad characters in all stories so people don't handle the possibility well that some things are just agents of chaos. Similar to the recent assassination attempt.
