A young man who shot dead his parents , left his young brother paralyzed and almost killed his sister acted shocked and hysterical in the days after the incident . Ashton Sachs , 19 , is charged with murdering his parents , Brad and Andra , as they slept the night of February 9 , 2013 , then shooting his younger brother Landon , 8 , leaving the young boy paralyzed and finally trying to kill his younger sister Lana , 15 , who was left unharmed when the bullet missed her as she lay in bed . Now , friends of the family are opening up about the incident in an interview with People , revealing that Ashton spent every day after the incident at his brother 's bedside and was in a complete state of shock that someone would murder his parents . Scroll down for video . Ashton Sachs ( above ) is charged with murdering his parents , Brad and Andra , then shooting his younger brother Landon , 8 , leaving the young boy paralyzed and finally trying to kill his younger sister Lana . Ashton drove 18 hours straight from Seattle to his family 's $ 2.5million luxury home and said he spent 15 minutes pacing outside his parents ' bedroom ( Andra left , Brad right ) deciding what to do before killing them . 'He would cry and say , `` Landon is 8 years old and he doesn ’ t have a dad , '' ' said Sarah Verbeek , a former girlfriend . 'He 'd say , `` I ca n't believe somebody killed my parents . '' ' Ruth Briscoe , one of Andra 's childhood friends , said that the first time she saw the young man after the tragedy ; 'He collapsed on me crying . It was pretty powerful . ' Ashton , who had no previous run-ins with the law , was arrested in March 2014 after police determined he was the 'lone suspect ' in the murder . The found a semi-automatic in his car and phone records placed him in the area around the time . What still remains a mystery however is why he did it , especially to those who knew the young man . ' I do n't have a reason why . Just a lot of problems , ' Ashton initially told authorities . 'He never showed any signs of aggression or threatened to hurt someone , ' said Verbeek . 'He was n't that kid seen on TV crime documentaries that secludes himself and does n't talk to anyone . He never spoke bad about his family . He never talked about guns . Nothing . ' Two weeks after the shooting , Ashton and his brother Myles ( right ) filed for custody of their adopted siblings . It all happened in this home outside San Diego , California . In fact , many seem to think that only thing that is off-putting is how he behaved in the days after the incident . 'He talked about how he loved his parents , ' said Andra 's sister Lesley Summers . ''He said he 'd had a dream that they were n't dead , and they drove up and Andra said , `` Bullets ca n't kill us . '' ' Conor Ward , a friend , said ; ' I think of my friend I loved , and I ca n't see the kid who murdered his parents . ' Ashton drove 18 hours straight from Seattle to his family 's $ 2.5million luxury home on February 9 , 2013 , and said he spent 15 minutes pacing outside his parents ' bedroom deciding what to do before killing them . He then shot his adopted brother and sister , just swinging open their doors and firing as they lay in bed . Then , two weeks after the shooting , he and his brother Myles filed for custody of those two children . Now he is behind bars at the Central Men 's Jail in Orange County , telling visitors that he wants to finish college and that be misses his family . ' I just do n't get it , ' said family friend Stephanie Garber.Andra 's other sister .
Ashton Sachs is charged with murdering his parents , Brad and Andra , then shooting his younger brother Landon , 8 , leaving the young boy paralyzed . He spent the weeks after the incident crying and outraged over the incident , saying he could not believe someone would kill his parents . The teenager from California , San Diego also sat by his brother 's bedside every day , and the night of the incident tried to shoot dead his sister as well . 'He would cry and say , `` Landon is 8 years old and he doesn ’ t have a dad , '' ' said Sarah Verbeek , a former girlfriend . When asked by police what his motive was , he said , ' I do n't have a reason why . Just a lot of problems '