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.
‘He’s forgiven’: Father of man killed by child in Gonzales County RV park hopes boy can be saved
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.
Exactly the same thing that is done in every other similar case these days... As close to nothing as possible.
He will be released and nobody will ever know who he is until he kills again. Even then we may not know. He will be released to prey on society for the rest of his useless life.
Sad he is damaged goods but he is and the rest of us should not have to suffer because of that fact.
One wonders if Gramps knew the murdered guy?
Too many coincidences ..
Except the detail of the 2nd discharge into the couch. That’s a little too specific for someone without first hand knowledge. Either he did it, or he was standing right there when it happened.
This boy is not right in the head.
Then I'm looking real hard at Gramps first.
“No motive whatsoever….”
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That we know of. Hell, it could simply be that the now deceased was white. We just don’t know but there was a motive.
Pawning doesn’t make anything disappear. That’s a long time for a gun to still be in a pawn shop unless the kid told him recently. Either grandpa isn’t the smartest thing or he didn’t know. Wonder if the cops knocked on his door at the time and what he told them.
Sorry, that little monster can’t be saved.
Unless he’s exceptionally low IQ, grandpa would not pawn a murder weapon that could be traced back to him. He would sell it in a nameless private sale to a stranger and report it stolen 6 months later.
Or drop it in a deep body of water far from home.
What if the grandfather did it and coached the kid on what to say?
“Sorry, that little monster can’t be saved.”
I agree. He was born EVIL.
Grandpa doesn’t sound like a Mensa candidate, if the story is accurate. Starting with a loaded gun in an unsecured vehicle.
I wonder if Gramps murdered the person.
Since the victim lived a few spaces away from the grandpa, I’m gonna bet that this kid entered the first unlocked RV.
I bet the closer RVs were locked.
Grandpa likely noticed there were missing rounds. And certainly he noticed that there's a dead guy in the trailer park when the police showed up and started asking questions.
Maybe grandpa is an alcoholic who wondered if he killed the guy during a blackout? 100% speculation on my part.
> GOOD GRIEF!! He threatened to KILL again!!
I'm pretty sure GSC was being sarcastic/ironic and just forgot to add a /sarc tag.
Excitable Boy
Hopefully the next intended victim will be carrying and will rid the world of this psycho
Too bad they closed all the insane asylums
To the Democrats they are a protected class
Oh, please. Even a 7 year old knows not to go into a stranger’s house, much less shoot them.
So random - but there's no point in looking for logic in the actions of crazy people.
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