GONZALES, Texas — Gonzales Independent School District is taking legal action against an 11-year-old boy who confessed to murdering a man he didn’t know in 2022, arguing having the child in the classroom would endanger others.

In April of last year, the Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office announced that a student attending Nixon-Smiley CISD, admitted to shooting and killing a man who was sleeping in January 2022. Officials were initially alerted about a separate incident about the boy allegedly threatening to assault and kill another student on the school bus.

The child was not charged with killing 32-year-old Brandon O’Quinn Rasberry since Texas law indicates juveniles under 10 years of age cannot be held criminally liable. Per the lawsuit, the boy said he shot Rasberry after he was told

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