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.
kid was 8, he found an unsecured firearm and went on an adventure
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.
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.
Doesn’t have to be for life but 6 months in an institution would do him better than 6 years in jail.
You’re not wrong. Clearly Texas does have at least one juvenile facility – the one where he was taken for evaluation – but why they’re not keeping him there is not evident.
Clearly the family is not up to the challenge; they can’t even keep their own guns secured. If the authorities do not intervene now, this kid is just going to keep going. Juvies and jails are like finishing schools. He’ll come out of it not actually better, just better at it. The 20th century is full of examples of the utter failure of penal systems for turning around a bad start, from Clyde Barrow to Charles Manson .
This kid is already well on his way to a full lifetime of similar behavior:
The boy is being held in juvenile detention for threatening a student on a bus in another incident earlier this month . . . after sheriff’s deputies were contacted on April 12 of this year about a student who threatened to assault and kill another student on a school bus.
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.
Sounds like they should charge the grandpa for not securing his gun that was used in a murder.
