2024-04-20 05:24:00
The boy shot the man even though they didn’t know each other. (symbol image)
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Criminal case in Texas: A child is said to have killed an unsuspectingly sleeping man he didn’t know two years ago.
In a previously unsolved murder case, a ten-year-old boy in Texas has confessed to shooting a sleeping man two years ago. The child did not know the victim, authorities said Friday. Accordingly, the boy was almost eight years old at the time of the crime. He was evaluated at a psychiatric hospital but might not be prosecuted because of his age at the time, the Gonzalez County Sheriff’s Office said. According to Texas criminal law, a child must be at least ten years old to be considered criminally responsible.
In 2022, a 32-year-old was shot in the head while sleeping in a mobile home park in the town of Nixon, according to investigators. The man had moved onto the square just a few days earlier.
The boy’s alleged connection to the case was only revealed when sheriff’s deputies were alerted last week to reports that a boy on a school bus had threatened to kill a fellow officer. Officers then learned that the boy had claimed on previous occasions that he had killed someone two years ago.
Still shot into the couch
The ten-year-old was then taken to a children’s facility, where he described the 2022 murder case in detail to investigators. At the time he was visiting his grandfather, who lived in the mobile home park near the future victim. He took a pistol from the glove compartment in his grandfather’s truck, got into the 32-year-old’s motorhome and shot him in the head. Before he left, he fired into the couch. He then put the gun back.
The boy said he had seen the victim in the park before but had never spoken to him. So he didn’t have a problem with the man. His grandfather later sold the pistol and investigators located it in a pawn shop. The bullet casings from the crime scene matched the weapon. The boy is currently being held in a juvenile detention center on charges of making a terrorist threat on the school bus.
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