Your definition of "quite negative" and mine are very different. When it comes to situations like this (regarding a young man, his criminal misbehavior, and insitutional response to that behavior e.g., mass shooters), I generally go back to the New York Times' infamous characterization of Michael Brown - a black teenager shot dead in the street and in broad daylight, over a box of cigarillos, by a police officer with a checkered professional history - as "no angel" (among other declarations). If you can't muster something perhaps at least as critical for an older young man who has nuked a measure of wealth equivalent to about half the GDP of the country where his company was based (or, the total wealth of ~50,000 Americans at the median net worth; or, a few hundred million boxes of cigarillos), well... Maybe you're going easy on him.

It's naive to think that affinity is not influencing, if not driving, the way that journalists regard and write about their subjects.