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Posted: 4/26/2024 11:39:05 AM EDT
Fucked up story, the kid has issues and I imagine there will be more to this story.
Fox News Story A 10-year-old Texas boy admitted to shooting a man he did not know more than two years ago while the victim slept, authorities said Friday – and he will not face charges. The boy was days away from his 8th birthday on Jan. 18, 2022 when Brandon O'Quinn Rasberry, 32, was shot in the head one time while he slept at an RV park in Nixon, about 60 miles east of San Antonio. Rasberry had just moved in four days prior, the Gonzales County Sheriff's Office said. A Nixon Smiley Independent School District principal told deputies on April 12 that the student had threatened to assault and kill another student on a bus the night prior. The school administrator contacted the sheriff's office after a threat assessment was conducted on the student, when the child confessed to shooting and killing a man two years ago. "I was shocked, very shocked," Rasberry's father, Kenneth Rasberry, told KSAT 12 News. "This isn’t anywhere the suspect that we thought it was." The boy was taken to a child advocacy center, where he described for interviewers details of Rasberry's death "consistent with first-hand knowledge" of the crime, investigators said. The boy said he had been at the RV park visiting his grandfather, who lived a few lots away from Rasberry. The 10-year-old said he obtained a 9 millimeter "dirt and army green"-colored pistol from the glove box of his grandfather's truck. 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 child said he had observed Rasberry walking around the RV earlier in the day, but he had never met him and had no reason to be mad at him. Rasberry's body was found after he failed to show up for work for two days. The murder weapon was located Friday at a pawn shop in Seguin, after the child informed investigators that it had been pawned by his grandfather. It was secured as evidence and linked to the crime after two spent shell casings collected from the scene were sent for forensic analysis and comparison. The boy was placed in 72-hour emergency detention "because of the severity of the crime and because of the continued concern for the child’s mental wellbeing," the sheriff’s office said. 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. The child will not be charged with murder due to his age at the time of the crime, Gonzales County Sheriff's Office said. Criminal culpability begins at age 10, according to Texas law. "He needs to be prayed on. He needs to be comforted ... He’s forgiven. And he can still be saved. He’s so young. He’s definitely tormented by something," Kenneth Rasberry told KSAT. His son had worked at Holmes Foods in Nixon for about three months prior to his death. |
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Fuck that. That's so disturbing I think that kid needs to be put down.
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WTF what kind of 8 year old just goes into someone's camper and kills them?
That boy ain't right and needs to be kept out of society |
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Quoted: ... "He needs to be prayed on. He needs to be comforted ... He's forgiven. And he can still be saved. He's so young. He's definitely tormented by something," Kenneth Rasberry told KSAT. ... View Quote |
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Yeah, that animal needs to be put down. Failing that, it should be caged for the rest of it's life. if it can't be jailed, it should never leave the confines of a mental facility because that is not normal, rational, behavior. Those are the actions of an animal with no sense of right and wrong.
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Im pretty sure Saddam Hussein killed his teacher around that age…
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Life imprisonment in a mental ward. Many years at least.
That thing is broken. |
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Unfortunately this is not the last time he'll be in the news.
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Yeah no repairing that. I'd bet there were also shitloads of warning signs the parents/grandparents were too dumb to see if not let foment by willingly turning a blind eye
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Quoted: Life imprisonment in a mental ward. Many years at least. That thing is broken. View Quote Then why not just kill it and save society the money? I genuinely don’t understand the point. We put down dogs who bite, and they don’t even know any better. This kid needs to eat a bullet, yesterday. |
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Going against the grain, maybe... But as someone who's got kids around that age, this kid may have had no idea what he was really doing.
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Quoted: The child will not be charged with murder due to his age at the time of the crime, Gonzales County Sheriff's Office said. Criminal culpability begins at age 10, according to Texas law. View Quote Seems very cut and dry. They'll need to change the law, if that's what Texans want. |
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Quoted: Going against the grain, maybe... But as someone who's got kids around that age, this kid may have had no idea what he was really doing. View Quote As someone who has a kid a few years older than that, if he didn't know that was bad then....he never will. That shit came defective from the manufacturer |
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Quoted: Going against the grain, maybe... But as someone who's got kids around that age, this kid may have had no idea what he was really doing. View Quote |
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I know a family that had 3 normal kids and adopted one who had "behavioral issues." Despite being in a caring, structured home, he never stopped doing inappropriate/bad things. Unfortunately, there are some people that are broken and can't be fixed.
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Quoted: Google “Nixon Smiley Independent School District”. Interesting. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Any guesses? Google “Nixon Smiley Independent School District”. Interesting. Nixon-Smiley CISD contains 5 schools and 1,065 students. The district’s minority enrollment is 80%. Also, 62.8% of students are economically disadvantaged. |
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Quoted: Seems very cut and dry. They'll need to change the law, if that's what Texans want. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: The child will not be charged with murder due to his age at the time of the crime, Gonzales County Sheriff's Office said. Criminal culpability begins at age 10, according to Texas law. Seems very cut and dry. They'll need to change the law, if that's what Texans want. Does that mean TX just does Nothing? The kid is 100% off the hook? That’s incredibly disturbing. |
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Quoted: No. He's a psychopath that cannot be fixed. Since they won't confine him, he needs to be monitored closely and hopefully prevented from committing his next murder. Only that won't happen. Because of idiots like Kenneth Rasberry. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: ... "He needs to be prayed on. He needs to be comforted ... He's forgiven. And he can still be saved. He's so young. He's definitely tormented by something," Kenneth Rasberry told KSAT. ... He will murder again. It might be difficult to connect the dots tho, given the rules about sealing record of a minor. |
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He will never be any better. Just dig a hole and be done with it.
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Quoted: Any guesses? View Quote Doesn’t matter, anyone who can calmly commit such acts of brutality for basically no reason , other than “ I felt like it “, isn’t fixable, they are broken. They shouldn’t be allowed to exist in our society, at all. 7 years old, mentally ill, deranged, psychotic, crazy, it’s no excuse, I care, zero excuses , you crossed a line that can’t be uncrossed, so, no hospital, no mental health / age excuses, no psychiatric ward sentences, your too dangerous to be allowed to exist, execute and toss in a hole. |
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Quoted: Does that mean TX just does Nothing? The kid is 100% off the hook? That's incredibly disturbing. View Quote Best hope is that his next victim (and there *will* be a next victim) is armed and ventilates him in self defense. Next most likely is that he kills again and gets locked up. Or turns into a serial killer and kills a lot of people before they catch him. |
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$20 says the scumbag family knew.
Bullets missing from the gun, a dead guy in the trailer park, pawned the gun. Burn them all at the stake. |
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Quoted: WTF what kind of 8 year old just goes into someone's camper and kills them? That boy ain't right and needs to be kept out of society View Quote But he won’t be, even if he received a psychiatric ward hold until 18, he’s out running free. That’s why I don’t have any sympathy for such individuals and believe they should be executed, because they won’t be fixed, or controlled, or properly locked up, some bleeding heart will give them some freedom and they will kill again, possibly kill a lot of people. My fix is a permanent solution that protects society from them permanently. You might be able to rehabilitate someone in a similar situation whos crimes were not as severe, or even someone who killed someone for some reason that made some sense, fear of them, abuse, abuse of others, to protect others from abuse, but once you cross that murdering random innocent people on a whim line, you should be also be voting yourself off the island of humanity / life as well. |
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