My "WTF?" story of the day, why did this kid kill a guy?

[Archae]

Did anyone ask this boy why he shot and killed a guy when he was 7?

GONZALES COUNTY, Texas (KSAT) - An RV park is now the center of a story that is hard to believe happened.

It started with a threat on a school bus and ended with investigators possibly solving a two-year homicide case and the suspect at the center of this is a 10-year-old boy.

According to the Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office, the 10-year-old boy admitted he killed a man when he was just 7 years old.

Law enforcement said the child will not be charged with the homicide because he is too young.

The victim’s father, Kenneth Rasberry, said he could not believe that a child was the person investigators say killed his son, Brandon Rasberry.

Brandon Rasberry, 32, was found dead at the Lazy J RV Park in Nixon on January 18, 2022.

Investigators said that at the time, the boy had been staying with his grandfather who lived in that RV park.

Authorities said the boy told them he grabbed a 9mm gun out of his grandfather’s truck, went into Rasberry’s RV, saw him sleeping and shot him in the head. The boy also told investigators he had only seen Rasberry walking around the RV park earlier that day.

The boy’s identity has not been released because he is so young.

Investigators connected him to Rasberry’s death while they were investigating another recent case where the same boy was accused of threatening to assault and kill another student on a bus from the Nixon-Smiley Consolidated Independent School District.

When leaders from the district spoke with the child, they said he commented on shooting and killing a man two years ago.

The 10-year-old was booked on charges for the threat, but as for the death of Brandon Rasberry, the boy will not be criminally prosecuted.

https://www.wbay.com/2024/04/22/10-year-old-boy-confesses-killing-man-2022/

[MissB]

1. Is he too young to be considered

a psychopath?

[skypilot]

5. Nope

*

[Nittersing]

2. I wonder if he was being molested. nt

[getagrip_already]

3. They asked him a bunch of questions about why he did it

They asked him if the guy angered him in any way? no.

They asked him if he didn't like the guy for some reason? no.

They asked him how many times he had seen the guy? Just once, briefly.

He grabbed a gun, broke into his rv, and shot him in the head. Then he returned the gun and went on with his vacation. No big deal.

psychopath. yes.

[Archae]

6. There was a "Law and Order" episode similar to this.

Psycho kid kills another kid, lies, then goes full psycho smirking at the other kid's Dad.
The Dad grabs a cop's gun and shoots and kills the psycho kid.

The Dad goes on trial, is found not guilty.

His final line, " (Psycho kid) would have killed again. I won't."

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. The person who left the gun out where he could grab it

ought to be charged.

[getagrip_already]

7. fwiw, it was his grandfather....

and it was in the glove compartment of his truck.

yeah, the family that guns together.....

[ecstatic]

8. yikes. A young psychopath? Or

is he just an extremely immature mischievous boy who will get into whatever trouble he has access to? Leaving a gun out with kids around is so reckless.

There needs to be extensive psychological testing to insure the safety of the boy's family, neighbors and classmates.

And of course, the grandfather needs to be held accountable for not securing his gun.

[surrealAmerican]

9. Why did this murder fail to be properly investigated two years ago?

I can't imagine a seven-year-old did much to cover it up.

[Marthe48]

10. Was race a factor?

Maybe the kid is not only a psycho, but a hater?

Did the gf have a beef with the victim, that the kid knew about?

I wonder what the outcome will be?