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OFF TOPIC - Why Do Kids Kill?

View the article here 11/12/2008 By RUSSELL GOLDMAN 8-Year-Old's Killing Spree Raises Questions About Why Children Murder Investigators are still piecing together exactly what took place in an eastern Arizona home, where an 8-year-old boy allegedly shot and killed his father and another man, systematically reloading a rifle and firing at close range. Details from the St. Johns crime scene are scant, and with a court-imposed gag order, little new information is likely to come out unless the boy is tried for the two counts of murder on which he has been charged. Police initially suspected the boy had been physically or sexually abused, but before the gag order was imposed Monday, investigators said they had found no evidence of trauma. "That's what makes this so troubling," Roy Melnick, chief of police in St...continue to full post

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