Juvenile Justice
In Police Video, 8-Year-Old Boy Changes Story, Says He May Have Shot Dad
Posted Nov 19, 2008, 06:59 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
In a police video released to the media, an 8-year-old boy accused of shooting his father and another man gives shifting accounts of what happened, finally telling police he may have shot the men.
At first the boy denies any role in the killings, but his story changes with pressure, report the Arizona Republic and the Associated Press. First he says he came home from school and saw his father’s co-worker, Timothy Romans, lying on the ground and went inside to find his father, Vincent Romero, bloody from the shooting. Later he said he may have shot at a white car fleeing the scene. Then he said he… Continue reading...
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