Posted on 04/21/2024 6:45:23 AM PDT by texanyankee
GONZALES COUNTY, Texas – A boy, who is now 10 years old, confessed to an unsolved murder from 2022, Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office announced on Friday.
But GCSO said he will not be charged with the crime because he committed it before the age of culpability.
Brandon O’Quinn Rasberry, 32, was shot and killed while he slept in his RV at the Lazy J RV Park located at 85 Wild Meadow in Nixon. He had just moved there four days before.
His body was discovered after he failed to show up to work for two days. He had been shot one time in the head.
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In a press release, GCSO said on April 12, they received a call from a Nixon-Smiley Independent School District principal about a student who threatened to assault and kill another student on a bus. During the district’s threat assessment, they learned that the child made a statement about shooting and killing a man two years ago.
Investigators questioned the child at a child advocacy center. He described in detail shooting and killing a man in a trailer in Nixon that was consistent with Rasberry’s slaying.
He told investigators that he was visiting his grandfather at his house, which was a few lots apart from Rasberry’s. The boy said he got a 9 mm pistol from the glove box of his grandfather’s truck and entered Rasberry’s home.
He told investigators he saw the man sleeping in his bed and he shot him. He said he discharged the firearm a second time into a couch in the RV and then returned the firearm to the glovebox of his grandfather’s truck, GCSO said.
The child said he had never met Brandon and wasn’t mad at him.
The child told investigators his grandfather had pawned the gun. On April 12, investigators located the firearm at a pawn shop in Seguin.
The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms San Antonio Field Office used ballistic testing to determine that the gun was the same one used to kill Rasberry.
The child was placed on 72-hour emergency detention “because of the severity of the crime and because of the continued concern for the child’s mental wellbeing the child,” the sheriff’s office stated.
He was transported to a psychiatric hospital in San Antonio for evaluation and treatment and then was taken to GCSO, where he was booked on terrorist threat charges relating to the school bus incident.
Texas Penal Code 8.07 states that a child does not have criminal culpability until they reach the age of 10 years old, so he will not be charged with murder in Rasberry’s death.
In a letter to parents, Nixon-Smiley Superintendent Jeff Van Auken said that the child will not be returning to the elementary school he was attending.
No motive whatsoever. Obvious sociopath.
“”””He told investigators that he was visiting his grandfather at his house, which was a few lots apart from Rasberry’s. The boy said he got a 9 mm pistol from the glove box of his grandfather’s truck and entered Rasberry’s home.
He told investigators he saw the man sleeping in his bed and he shot him. He said he discharged the firearm a second time into a couch in the RV and then returned the firearm to the glovebox of his grandfather’s truck, GCSO said.
The child said he had never met Brandon and wasn’t mad at him.”””””
What a bizarre death for the sleeping man in his bed.
“Texas Penal Code 8.07 states that a child does not have criminal culpability until they reach the age of 10 years old”
But is perfectly capable of making the decision to “transition”, according to our esteemed politicians and medical “professionals”.
Several questions ... that we may never know the answers to:
Why did Grandpa “pawn” the weapon? Has Grandpa been questioned?
Is this kid here, illegally?
The school superintendent states (in letter to parents) that this child will not be returning to the same elementary school. What elementary school, if any, WILL he be returning to?
Our government will find a use for him...
The Bad Seed
“Obvious sociopath.”
I think psychopath is more like it.
The kid is a psychopath. Neurosis is curable, psychosis is not curable.
“a student who threatened to assault and kill another student on a bus. During the district’s threat assessment, they learned that the child made a statement about shooting and killing a man two years ago.”
I understand the difficulty of prosecuting a 10 year old. But this kid is a homicidal maniac, who learned nothing from his first kill and was plotting mass slaughter 3 years later. There is no fixing this or ever trusting him to be free. What will be done to protect the public from his future adventures?
No,you don’t diagnose a 7 year old as a psychopath. We’ll have to wait 10 years...or more...to be sure.
When I saw that I wondered if the Grandfather knew and wanted to get rid of the pistol.
BINGO!! A BAD SEED!!
GOOD GRIEF!! He threatened to KILL again!!
Yes. psychopath is a a better description.
There is no saving this person. He is a born predator.
One of my favorite movies.
So, knowingly and intentionally got a gun and shot an apparent total stranger at 7 years old; now is making threats regarding a school bus. Lock the kid up now or wait until he kills again? I say lock him up now and forever. It would be easier, like a dog, to put him down now before he hurts someone again but I guess we can’t do that to people.
Yeah, I don’t believe his story. I’m sure somebody getting killed during his visit with Gramps was big news, so I don’t doubt he heard all sorts of details, but the number of coincidences that had to happen seem astounding (unlocked truck with gun, unlocked RV). I can see a kid making a threat and using that story to try and back up his threat. I have a harder time believing all the things necessary to fall in to place for him to have killed that guy.
Ballistics on the gun matched.
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