10 Year Old Confessed to Cold Blooded Murder at 8 Years Old

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

How does a kid get this screwed up?

10-year-old boy confesses to fatally shooting a man in his sleep 2 years ago, Texas authorities say

Authorities in Texas say a 10-year-old boy has confessed to an unsolved 2022 killing, telling investigators that he shot a man he did not know while the victim slept.

apnews.com

And will the Grandfather be charged?

 

[BoomerD]

How does a kid get this screwed up?

10-year-old boy confesses to fatally shooting a man in his sleep 2 years ago, Texas authorities say

Authorities in Texas say a 10-year-old boy has confessed to an unsolved 2022 killing, telling investigators that he shot a man he did not know while the victim slept.

apnews.com

And will the Grandfather be charged?

in Texas?

 

[Moonbeam]

How does a kid get this screwed up?

10-year-old boy confesses to fatally shooting a man in his sleep 2 years ago, Texas authorities say

Authorities in Texas say a 10-year-old boy has confessed to an unsolved 2022 killing, telling investigators that he shot a man he did not know while the victim slept.

apnews.com

And will the Grandfather be charged?

My guess is that it likely involves the parents and what may have happened with them. Apparently he lives with his Grandfather. Why would that be?

 

[HomerJS]

Texas doesn’t have much of a penalty for adults allowing kids access to guns. I doubt those yahoos will increase them because guns are more important than their kids.

That grandfather needs to be given max sentence and never be allowed to own a gun again.

13 Investigates: Significant jail time rare after kids get hold of guns

We looked at 55 Harris County cases where someone was charged with making a firearm accessible to a child.

abc13.com

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

How does a kid get this screwed up?

10-year-old boy confesses to fatally shooting a man in his sleep 2 years ago, Texas authorities say

Authorities in Texas say a 10-year-old boy has confessed to an unsolved 2022 killing, telling investigators that he shot a man he did not know while the victim slept.

apnews.com

And will the Grandfather be charged?

At that age I can't imagine the individual has enough awareness of existence to really understand what the action does. That's what, a third grader? The connections aren't there yet. Whoever's gun that is though, they need a whole lot of something.

 

[sactoking]

10 years old should be around 5th grade in the US.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

10 years old should be around 5th grade in the US.

He was 8 when the act was committed. That's around 3rd.

 

[sactoking]

Sorry, yes, I misunderstood the statement.

 

[Thump553]

This happened in Texas unfortunately. Otherwise I would ask why grandpa-who left a loaded pistol in (an apparently unlocked) glove box when a kid is around was not charged.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

"The boy told investigators his grandfather sold the pistol to a pawn shop in Seguin, "

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article287844855.html

I haven't seen when or why, but if it were soon after, it hints at the Grandfather knowing what happened.

 

[Moonbeam]

"The boy told investigators his grandfather sold the pistol to a pawn shop in Seguin, "

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article287844855.html

I haven't seen when or why, but if it were soon after, it hints at the Grandfather knowing what happened.

It more than hints at that in my opinion but it still seems like a separate issue. There is, again in my opinion, something strange going on with this kid. Not just any young boy who might find a loaded gun would wander over somewhere and kill a perfect stranger with it. I would bet this kid was exposed to something terribly traumatic at a younger age or else he is one of a rare number of children who are born incapable of feeling empathy and see living beings as things.