• BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    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.

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      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.

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        Oh come on when I was 8 I knew what a gun was and the aftermath and heaviness of doing such a thing, kids aren’t that clueless.

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            6 months ago

            Well yeqh, even in the USA most year olds don’t have guns.

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              Sure, but if I started posting news articles matching “an American child under twelve years old killed or injured someone with a gun” and you started posting “a child from outside America killed or injured someone with a gun”, who do you think would run out of articles first?

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        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.

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    6 months ago

    Sounds like they should charge the grandpa for not securing his gun that was used in a murder.