8-year-old arrested in double-homicide (county, children, newspaper, crime)

[Bjorn_Ironside32]

An 8-year-old Arizona boy may face double-murder charges in the shooting death of his father and another man at the family residence, The Arizona Republic reported Friday on its Web site.

The child is being held in juvenile custody for a hearing scheduled for Friday afternoon in Apache County Justice Court.

St. John Police Chief Roy Melnick told the newspaper that officers arrived at the home in the rural community of St. John in eastern Arizona within minutes of the shooting on Wednesday. They found one of the victims deceased just outside the front door and another dead in an upstairs room.

8-year-old arrested in double-homicide - Crime & courts

[Singe]

How sad..... I wonder what they will do with him?...I saw this on CNN. Here's also the story from the AZ newspaper.

8-year-old St. Johns boy arrested in 2 killings | State News | eastvalleytribune.com (http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/129967 - broken link)

[Bjorn_Ironside32]

It's truly sad.

[cynwldkat]

Seems they are getting younger all the time. Very sad and just as scary! Maybe just maybe there is way to much violence these young children are seeing on games, tv, movies and real life! In their young minds what is real and what is not???

[findinghope]

what was the motive? i wonder if the father was doing something to the child? premeditaed, so what could poses a child so young to plan something like that?