Pretty amazing accuracy for an 8 year old

[Pell City Tiger]

Boy, 8, charged with killing two, including dad
'Precedent-setting' case shocks town as child accused of shooting two men

FLAGSTAFF, Arizona - It's a crime that police officers in a small eastern Arizona community can hardly fathom yet have to deal with: an 8-year-old charged in the fatal shootings of his father and another man.

"Who would think an 8-year-old kid could kill two adults?" St. Johns Police Chief Roy Melnick said Friday.

The killings on Wednesday sent shock waves through St. Johns, a community of about 4,000 people. The boy had no disciplinary record at school, and there was no indication he had any problems at home, prosecutors said.

"It was such a tragedy," said the boy's defense attorney, Benjamin Brewer. "You have two people dead; you have an 8-year-old in jail. It tugs at the heart strings. It's a shocker, no doubt about it."

On Friday, a judge determined there was probable cause to show that the boy fatally shot his father, Vincent Romero, 29, and Timothy Romans, 39, with a .22-caliber rifle. The boy faces two counts of premeditated murder. Under Arizona law, charges can be filed against anyone 8 or older.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27600105/

[tiger88]

Well, if the father left an 8 yr. old unsupervised with the rifle then I don't know what to say. The higher order thinking skills just aren't there yet. To me 8 is away too young for a rifle anyways.