Authorities in Texas say a 10-year-old boy has confessed to an unsolved 2022 killing, telling investigators that he shot a man he did not know while the victim slept.

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.

  • @jordanlund
    -2•7 months ago

    The fact that he straight up killed a guy he did not know and had no contact with. That’s classic psychopathic behavior.

    Follow that with threatening to kill another kid at school and bragging about how he already killed someone already.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•7 months ago

      Ah, so you’re just full of shit and diagnosing someone you’ve never met with credentials you do not have.

    • @pyre
      2•7 months ago

      what are the main elements of psychopathic behavior? surely it isn’t about how much contact you have with the guy you kill. what in particular about that behavior is psychopathic?

      • @jordanlund
        1•7 months ago

        https://www.healthline.com/health/psychopath

        behavior that conflicts with social norms - Yes

        disregarding or violating the rights of others - Yes

        inability to distinguish between right and wrong - Yes

        difficulty with showing remorse or empathy - Yes

        tendency to lie often - Unknown, but likely.

        manipulating and hurting others - Yes.

        recurring problems with the law - Yes.

        general disregard toward safety and responsibility - Yes.

        expressing anger and arrogance on a regular basis - Yes.

        So out of 7 categories, this kid hits 6 of them.