A 10-year-old boy from Texas (USA) confesses that in 2022 he killed a man that I didn’t know. However, in compliance with state law, as when he did it he was only 7 years old, the minor cannot be charged.
According to english speaking mediaciting the Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office, Brandon O’Quinn Rasberry was found dead in the motor home in which he lived on January 18, 2022after her employer reported her missing.
The body of man, 32 years old, He had a gunshot wound to the head and two scratches on his hands.
The Police investigated the crime when the body was found, but it was not until last week – more than two years after the murder – that The case has turned around.
The principal of a local school informed the sheriff’s office that an unidentified 10-year-old student had confessed to shooting O’Quinn Rasberry. The director also assured that the same student had threatened to kill another classmate.
Police have revealed that investigators have interviewed the boy, who was able to describe the murder in detail which he allegedly carried out when he was only seven years old.
With his grandfather’s gun
The boy said he had been visiting his grandfather, who lived in the same trailer park, when he saw O’Quinn Rasberry. On the night of the murder, he said that He took out the gun, a 9 millimeter, “dirt and military green” in color, from the glove compartment of his grandfather’s truck. and entered O’Quinn Rasberry’s trailer to shoot him.
“The boy said that as he was leaving the RV, he fired the gun again at the couch. Then, “He left the motorhome and left the firearm in the glove compartment of the truck.”. According to investigators, the boy did not have a motive for the crime since he admitted that he did not know the deceased.
The boy He will not be charged because Texas state law does not allow it.which says that a child cannot be responsible for a crime until he or she is 10 years old.
The minor detained for 72 hours He has been transferred to a psychiatric hospital in San Antonio, Texas, for evaluation and treatment.
