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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.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (14 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Don't know about US law, but where I live we have a "Preventative Detention Order" - the threshold for it is very high, but it essentially works as a sentence of "until rehabilitated", you are incarcerated until the court decides that you are no longer a threat to the community, even in cases where a life without parole sentence wouldn't be possible. In a world where I am supreme ruler, it'd automatically apply in cases where someone who has a conviction for a violent crime commits another violent crime.

Also, how the hell does an 8 year old get a gun? Surely whoever failed to secure it - or even worse gave it to a minor - would be looking at an accessory change?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago

Rehabilitation doesn't happen in the U.S. It's entirely about punishment.

If you're in prison here, you deserve it. Even if you're innocent.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Also, how the hell does an 8 year old get a gun? Surely whoever failed to secure it - or even worse gave it to a minor - would be looking at an accessory change?

Stole it from the glovebox of his grandfathers truck, it's in the article.

But even if the glovebox was locked, if you have the keys to get into the truck, you have the keys to open the glovebox.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (24 children)

I hope the grandfather faces consequences as well.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago

Its Texas, depending on the races of the shooter and victim, its either death row or being elected to US or state representative.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (39 children)

Hey hey hey that's enough. Guns are not the problem at all. We need guns to protect us from bad men.

/s

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

If that man had a gun connected to a booby trap to protect him while he was sleeping, he wouldn't be dead at the moment!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Well firstly interview all of the child's caregivers. Determine the living conditions the child has experienced for the past several years. Determine what failures of supervision happened that resulted in an 8 year old gaining access to a firearm.

Then remediate unsafe living conditions, provide therapy, and charge whatever people who were responsible for the kid with manslaughter.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Yep of course lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Psychopathic behavior. Only thing to do would be lifetime commitment.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (11 children)

Sure you meant lifetime free mental services in response to something a 7 YEAR OLD did

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I thought I was going crazy haha. Adults don't even always do life for murder.

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