A 10-year-old Texas boy confessed to shooting a man in the head while he was sleepint two years ago — when he was 7 .
The boy was being questioned about alleged threats to kill another student on a bus when he made the confession, the Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office said.
The Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office said the child described in detail how he killed 32-year-old Brandon O’Quinn Raspberry.
The boy said he was visiting his grandfather in the same RV park where Raspberry lived, and on the day of the murder, he took a gun from the glove box of his grandfather’s truck and went to Raspberry’s RV and shot him once in the head.
“When asked, the child stated he had never met Brandon, and did not know who he was although he had observed him walking around the RV earlier in the day,” the sheriff’s office said. “The child was also asked if he was mad at Brandon for some reason or if Brandon had ever done anything to him to make him mad, the child stated no.”
Deputies found the gun, which which the child said his grandfather had pawned, and confirmed that it was the weapon used to kill the victim.
The boy was taken to a psychiatric hospital in San Antonio and has since been admitted to a juvenile detention facility in Gonzales County on a terroristic threat charge relating to the school bus incident.
He won’t be charged with Raspberry’s murder because Texas law decrees that a child is not responsible for any crimes committed before the age of 10, the sheriff’s office said.
