10-year-old boy confesses to fatally shooting a man in his sleep 2 years ago, Texas authorities say (apnews.com)

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[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 33 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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 long-term.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Doesn't have to be for life but 6 months in an institution would do him better than 6 years in jail.

[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 2 points 7 months ago

He sounds like he is mentally unwell. He needs psychiatry and people who can work with him, not prison.

[-] PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

America doesn't help people, it just gives them guns. The only difference this time is that they were unusually young.

[-] match@pawb.social 10 points 7 months ago

kid was 8, he found an unsecured firearm and went on an adventure

[-] arefx@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

In most countries, 8 year olds simply have no access to guns.

[-] arefx@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Well yeqh, even in the USA most year olds don't have guns.

[-] PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

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?

[-] arefx@lemmy.ml -1 points 7 months ago

No shit?

[-] PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Sorry, was I supposed to pin a medal on you for not murdering someone when you were 8?

[-] arefx@lemmy.ml -3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

No, you are an idiot though.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

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.