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.

  • @girlfreddy@lemmy.caOP
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    337 months ago

    Imo it boils down to a child needing to feel some semblance of control in their life, and because their brains haven’t developed enough to find more constructive ways to do that shit like this happens.

    You see this throughout humans all over the world, adults and children alike. Self-determination and the ability to make choices, however small, is important.

    • @Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world
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      167 months ago

      And it literally can be as simple as you picking 2 outfits that are appropriate for the day and letting them pick which one to wear. That’s not to imply anything about the OP or the ER story…obvs every individual case is unique, and I’m not implying that picking your own underwear can cure psychopathy.

      But, things as simple as this can cure neurotypical cases of children acting out if that behavior is rooted in a need for self-determination or control.