I heard in the news yesterday that an 8 year old Arizona boy was charged with double premeditated murder. He allegedly shot and killed his father and his father’s friend, a man who was renting a home in the father’s house. I’m not sure exactly what the circumstances are surrounding the killing, but apparently the child has confessed to the murders. Officials are trying to have the child tried as an adult at this time but hopefully the judge on the case does not grant the motion. The police chief of the small town the boy lived in with his father says that he believes the child may have been abused, but at this time they do not have any evidence of that. The only thing they do seem to know at this time is that the murders were not accidental. The judge ordered a psychological evaluation and the boy is currently with his mother whom did not have custody of the child at the time of the murders.

The thing that gets me most about this whole thing is that the boy is only 8 years old and actually (allegedly) planned out a double homicide. There must have been something crazy going on here, abuse or something. It’s pretty frightening to me, to know that an 8 year old is capable of this. It’s also frightening that they want him tried as an adult. There is no way that they can possibly get that motion to pass. I mean, I think the boy should be severely punished, but that’s only if this was some random act of violence. There may have been things going on behind the scenes that led to this horrendous crime. Either way, this child killed his own father and will have to live with that knowledge for the rest of his life.