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.
Brandon O’Quinn Rasberry, 32, was shot in the head in 2022 while he slept at an RV park in Nixon, Texas, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) east of San Antonio, investigators said. He had just moved in a few days before.
The boy’s possible connection to the case was uncovered 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. They learned the boy had made previous statements that he had killed someone two years ago.
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.
Holy hell. Imagine moving to a new area with a new job. You're starting over, and bam, you're dead because you moved 2 doors down from an 8 year old psychopath who kills you in your sleep.
I had a 7 year old girl brought to the hospital I worked out of at the time, while I was employed as a crisis intervention worker.
Flipping out, screaming, punching, kicking, biting, as they try to secure her on the stretcher. She kicks her mother in the face in the process, bad bloody nose, possibly broken, blood starts pouring out, 7 year old starts giggling and pointing at her mother as this happens.
What do you even do for something like this? A literal child? Do you lock them up for life? Rehabilitate under close supervision and reassess? Can someone like this even be rehabilitated?
The boy said he had been visiting his grandfather, who lived a few lots away from Rasberry in the RV park. He described the 9 mm pistol and its “dirt and army green” color, and said he took it from the glove box of his grandfather’s truck.
A glove box is not safe storage of a firearm. Considering the grandfather sold the pistol after, I'm going to guess he knew what happened.
All the comments debating child psychology when the Grandfather kept his gun in a glovebox and then sold it immediately after the murder. Like, what the fuck?!
I don't give a damn what the kid was thinking, that Grandfather is the one we need for justice to be served.
The boy said his grandfather later sold the pistol. Deputies located it at a pawn shop. Shell casings from the previous crime scene were matched to the gun, investigators said.
Even considering that, I have concerns about how the police questioning of a ten year old was handled.
You know this probably wouldn't have happened had gramps kept the gun on him, if he wanted it as a truck gun probably for "self-defense", or whatever, and then just like. put it in an actual combo safe in his house once he got home. Even if you're evaluating this from like, what I'm presuming to be the motivations behind gramps keeping a gun in his truck, it doesn't make any fuckin sense. a truck gun is totally useless, how the fuck is he gonna, presumably shut off his car, use his car key to open it up, then access his firearm in a timely manner in the 1 in a million chance he needs it? Not to mention if someone steals his car, free gun, boom.
What a dipshit. This guy shouldn't be allowed to have a firearm.
I'm not usually for capital punishment, especially for minors, but I think putting this one down is more akin to euthanasia than murder. I really don't believe that someone who managed to do this and keep quiet for two years at that age can be rehabilitated.