Authorities in Texas say a 10-year-old boy has confessed to an unsolved 2022 killing, telling investigators that he shot a man he did not know while the victim slept.
The boy, who was just shy of his eighth birthday when the man was shot two years ago, has been evaluated at a psychiatric hospital but cannot be charged with the crime because of his age at the time
Umm, okay. I guess, y’know kids have poor judgement at that age.
The boy described entering Rasberry’s RV, shooting him in the head, and shooting again into the couch before leaving, then returning the gun to the truck, investigators said.
The boy told his interviewer he had seen Rasberry in the RV park earlier in the day, but never met him and had no reason to be mad at him.
Okay that’s a straight up psychopath right there.
He was brought to a psychiatric hospital in San Antonio for evaluation and treatment and then was taken back to Gonzales County. He was placed in juvenile detention on a charge of making a terroristic threat for the school bus incident.
And then they put him in a kiddie jail?!? He is mentally unstable! He will not get any better in a jail but they’re going to let him out in a few years I’m sure. It’s really starting to feel like Texas is just moving backwards in time. Next we’ll be “curing” homosexuality with leaches and being dunked in a lake.
Sure, but if I started posting news articles matching “an American child under twelve years old killed or injured someone with a gun” and you started posting “a child from outside America killed or injured someone with a gun”, who do you think would run out of articles first?
I’d give a foolish 8yo ONE shot and write it off as acting without any forethought. He shot again though. If a loud gunshot and splattered brains doesn’t snap you out of it then you are literally messed up in the head.
Umm, okay. I guess, y’know kids have poor judgement at that age.
Okay that’s a straight up psychopath right there.
And then they put him in a kiddie jail?!? He is mentally unstable! He will not get any better in a jail but they’re going to let him out in a few years I’m sure. It’s really starting to feel like Texas is just moving backwards in time. Next we’ll be “curing” homosexuality with leaches and being dunked in a lake.
I suspect that that’s less a Texas thing and more the difficulty of legally locking up a ten-year-old in a mental hospital.
Doesn’t have to be for life but 6 months in an institution would do him better than 6 years in jail.
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He sounds like he is mentally unwell. He needs psychiatry and people who can work with him, not prison.
America doesn’t help people, it just gives them guns. The only difference this time is that they were unusually young.
kid was 8, he found an unsecured firearm and went on an adventure
Oh come on when I was 8 I knew what a gun was and the aftermath and heaviness of doing such a thing, kids aren’t that clueless.
In most countries, 8 year olds simply have no access to guns.
Well yeqh, even in the USA most year olds don’t have guns.
Sure, but if I started posting news articles matching “an American child under twelve years old killed or injured someone with a gun” and you started posting “a child from outside America killed or injured someone with a gun”, who do you think would run out of articles first?
No shit?
Sorry, was I supposed to pin a medal on you for not murdering someone when you were 8?
No, you are an idiot though.
I’d give a foolish 8yo ONE shot and write it off as acting without any forethought. He shot again though. If a loud gunshot and splattered brains doesn’t snap you out of it then you are literally messed up in the head.