GONZALES, Texas — Tuesday morning, a local school district is heading to federal court in hopes of keeping an 11-year-old out of the classroom. The child confessed to murdering a man he didn’t know in 2022, and the school argues having the child in the classroom would endanger others.

A judge will decide whether the boy should be banned from school property. Gonzales ISD is urgently requesting a temporary restraining order to keep the child off all campuses and away from school events.

In April of last year, the Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office revealed that the child - then a student at Nixon-Smiley CISD confessed to shooting 32-year-old Brandon O’Quinn Rasberry while he slept, back in January 2022.

Because the boy was under the age of 10 at the time of the killing, Texas law prevents

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