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10 year old shoots and kills his own mother
01-04-2011, 12:59 PM
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10 year old shoots and kills his own mother
http://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-boy-10...2529574&page=1
Apparently the kid has a "troubled" past. Fry him?
Investigators in north central Ohio have taken a 10-year-old boy into custody for suspicion of killing his mother with a .22 caliber rifle, police said.
According to the Holmes County Sheriff's Office, a police dispatcher received an emergency call about 6 p.m. Sunday. The caller told police that a neighbor boy had come to the caller's home and said he just shot his mother, a police press release said.
Police and emergency medical responders were sent to the boy's home on Route 511 in Big Prairie, an unincorporated community about 75 miles south of Cleveland. When they arrived on the scene, they discovered the victim, 46-year-old Deborah L. McVay, face-down inside the home. McVay had been shot once in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
The 10-year-old boy, who is not being identified because of his age, was taken into custody and transported to the Richland County Juvenile Detention Center in Mansfield. The victim's body is being examined by the Stark County Coroner's Office.
The victim's 15-year-old daughter has been placed in the care of relatives, police said. Her whereabouts at the time of the shooting remain unclear.
According to Cleveland's WEWS-TV Channel 5 News, the 10-year-old boy is scheduled to appear in Holmes County Juvenile Court today.
Contacted by AOL News, the Holmes County Sheriff's Office said the investigation is ongoing and they had no additional information to release on the case.
According to the Holmes County Sheriff's Office, a police dispatcher received an emergency call about 6 p.m. Sunday. The caller told police that a neighbor boy had come to the caller's home and said he just shot his mother, a police press release said.
Police and emergency medical responders were sent to the boy's home on Route 511 in Big Prairie, an unincorporated community about 75 miles south of Cleveland. When they arrived on the scene, they discovered the victim, 46-year-old Deborah L. McVay, face-down inside the home. McVay had been shot once in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
The 10-year-old boy, who is not being identified because of his age, was taken into custody and transported to the Richland County Juvenile Detention Center in Mansfield. The victim's body is being examined by the Stark County Coroner's Office.
The victim's 15-year-old daughter has been placed in the care of relatives, police said. Her whereabouts at the time of the shooting remain unclear.
According to Cleveland's WEWS-TV Channel 5 News, the 10-year-old boy is scheduled to appear in Holmes County Juvenile Court today.
Contacted by AOL News, the Holmes County Sheriff's Office said the investigation is ongoing and they had no additional information to release on the case.
Apparently the kid has a "troubled" past. Fry him?
01-04-2011, 01:10 PM
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Lock him up anyway. You shouldn't kill people for sh*ts & giggles & get away with it. I guess that'll teach the mom to have guns around a bad kid? :paranoid:
01-04-2011, 01:59 PM
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I would have to use emotion and facts to try and understand whether it was intentional or accident. If he unlocked the cabinet in another room, went to his mom with the barrel to her head and pulled the trigger - lock him up.
If the guns are laying on a table, and it's possible that it went off as he picked it up, AND he's emotionally distressed by what happened, then consider rehabilitation.
If he throws gang signs as they walk him into the court room... life without parole. I'd say 25 years, but 25 years in prison will just make him worse when he gets out at age 35.
Bottom line, they won't try him as an adult and the most time spent will be 8 years.
If the guns are laying on a table, and it's possible that it went off as he picked it up, AND he's emotionally distressed by what happened, then consider rehabilitation.
If he throws gang signs as they walk him into the court room... life without parole. I'd say 25 years, but 25 years in prison will just make him worse when he gets out at age 35.
Bottom line, they won't try him as an adult and the most time spent will be 8 years.
