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A 10-year-old boy has openly admitted to murdering a man in his own home.
Brandon O'Quinn Rasberry, 32, was found dead in his mobile home on 18 January, 2022, following a call to his landlord from his employer, Holmes Foods, after he hadn't showed up to work in two days.
The Gonzales County Sheriff's Office announced on Thursday, 17 April that a 10-year-old Texas boy confessed to the murder that happened two years ago.
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In the statement that was shared with local newspaper the Gonzales Inquirer in 2023, the sheriff's office stated that Rasberry's family was 'incredibly heartbroken' and just had their 'first holiday season without' the 32-year-old.
The man was found with a single gunshot wound in his head, though detectives found no leads after a search of the area and forensic analysis of the victim's mobile phone data.
Up until 12 April, 2024, the case went unsolved until it was reported by a Nixon-Smiley Consolidated Independent School District principal that a 10-year-old boy had threatened to assault and kill another student on a school bus.
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It was later revealed by a school official that the elementary school student said he shot and killed a man two years ago, according to authorities.
He was then taken to a child forensic interviewer, and horrifically 'described in detail' what he did to kill a man that was inside his trailer in Nixon, Texas, when he was just seven-years-old.
The boy detailed that on 16 January, 2022, while visiting his grandfather who lived in the same RV park as Rasberry, he carried out the heinous crime.
He had never met Rasberry, having only seen him walking around that day, according to the release.
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After taking a pistol from his grandfather's glove compartment, he went into the food worker's mobile home while he was sleeping and fired a single shot at his head, before firing another into the couch, before leaving and putting the gun back in the glove compartment.
The boy then told the interviewer that the gun was pawned off by his grandfather, which was later recovered in Seguin, Texas, and forensics analysis proved that it was used in the murder of the man.
Following the psychiatric evaluation and treatment, the 10-year-old was booked on charge of making a terroristic threat relating to the school bus incident.
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This was the only charge given, as the Texas Penal Code states that 'a child does not have criminal culpability until they reach the age of ten years old', and since he was only seven when he carried the murder out, murder charges have not been filed.
Nixon-Smiley Independent School District Superintendent Jeff Van Auken shared in a statement with local news station KSAT, that he will not be allowed to return to the elementary school campus, after the district cooperated with the investigation.
Joshua Nair