10-Year-Old Confesses To Murder Of Man Shot Inside Own Home, Authorities Say

A 10-year-old Texas boy confessed to the murder of a 32-year-old food worker who was shot inside his home in 2022, the Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday.

Brandon O’Quinn Rasberry was found in his mobile home Jan. 18, 2022, after his employer, Holmes Foods, called his landlord because he had not shown up to work in two days, the sheriff’s office said in the release.

Deputies found Rasberry with a single gunshot wound to the head, the sheriff’s office said. Detectives found no leads in a search of the area or forensic analysis of the victim’s cellphone data.

Medical examiners concluded that Rasberry had been dead for about two days before he was found, the sheriff’s office said.

In a statement shared with the Gonzales Inquirer, a local newspaper, a year after Rasberry’s death, the sheriff’s office said that the man’s family was “incredibly heartbroken” and had just gone through “their first holiday season without” him.

Rasberry’s case went unsolved until April 12, when a Nixon-Smiley Consolidated Independent School District principal reported thata 10-year-old boy had threatened to assault and kill another student on a bus, according to the release.

A school official later told a deputy that the 10-year-old said he fatally shot a man two years ago, authorities said.

The boy was taken to a child forensic interviewer and “described in detail” how he killed a man inside a trailer in Nixon, Texas, when he was 7, the sheriff’s office said.

The child said that on Jan.16, 2022, he was visiting his grandfather, who lived in the same RV park as Rasberry. He said he hadnever met Rasberry and had only seen him walking around earlier that day, authorities said in the release.

The boy took a pistol from the glove