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UPDATE 27th Nov 2008

- The boy allegedly committed the crime as he had been smacked more than 1,000 times by his mother and stepmother, of which he kept a record on the number of beatings. He had promised himself that “1,000 would be the limit.”
- He shot the duo as they were coming home from work at a local power plant.

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Around 5pm on the 5th of November 2008, an 8-year old boy shot dead his own father, Vincent Romero, 29 and Timothy Romans, 39 in St Johns, Arizona, USA.

One of them was found just outside the front door and the other in a room upstairs.

The boy had used a .22 calibre rifle which his father had taught him to use for hunting.

After the shootings, he went to a neighbour’s house and told them that his father’s dead.

The late Vincent Romero

According to police, he has confessed to the crime, and has been charged with murder.

He was well-behaved at school but is believed to have been abused at home.

The house where the shootings took place

Source
The BBC, 8th November 2008
AP