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The 9-year-old Arizona boy charged with murdering his father and another man has been offered a plea deal that may spare him prison time.

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Phoenix prosecutors have offered a plea agreement to the 8-year-old boy accused of killing his father and another man. His defense attorneys have not yet decided on whether or not to recommend he takes the plea.

The lawyer, Ron Wood, declined to provide details of the plea bargain offer. “When the time comes, we will have a discussion with the boy and the mother and decide what we are going to do,” he said.

Mr. Wood said the evaluations should be completed in the next few weeks. He said the state had not yet provided him with important evidence, including the results of ballistics tests of the .22-caliber single-action rifle that the police said the boy used to shoot his father, Vincent Romero, 29, four times and a boarder, Timothy Romans, 39, six times.

In court papers made public Saturday, prosecutors said the plea bargain would resolve a legal issue that had arisen because of the young age of the boy and the heinous nature of the crimes.

Police have released a video confession from an 8-year-old accused of shooting two people — his father, and another man that was renting a room at their house.

“I think, um, I think I shot my dad because he was suffering, I think,” the third-grader says. “So, I may have shot him.”

That admission led detectives to arrest the boy on Nov. 6, one day after his father and another man were shot dead at the family’s home on a quiet residential street.

Police have said the child’s initial account contained numerous discrepancies, which caused investigators to interrogate him further. Roy Melnick, police chief in St. Johns, said last week that the crime appeared to be carefully planned and that he advocated the boy be tried as an adult.

An 8-year-old Arizona boy is being held on 2 counts of premeditated murder, after he allegedly killed his father and another man with a rifle.

Police say the boy confessed to planning and carrying out the shooting deaths of Romero, 29, and co-worker Timothy Romans, 39, who rented a room from him. The men were found shot to death inside Romero’s home in the small eastern Arizona community northeast of Phoenix last week.

Police and neighbors are at a loss to explain why he would have used a .22-caliber rifle to kill his father and another man at their home.

“That child, I don’t think he knows what he did, and it was brutal,” said the family priest, the Very Rev. John Paul Sauter.

The third-grader is due in court Monday, the same day as a funeral Mass scheduled to be held for his dad at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church.

A Phoenix grandmother was left dead and her granddaughter wounded after a road rage incident lead to shots being fired at her car.

Phoenix police said the incident began near 19th Avenue and Bethany Home Road with a minor collision between the Dodge Durango the five people were riding in and a White Ford Escort.

The two drivers got out and a verbal altercation ensued, police said.

The 21-year-old driver of the Escort then followed the Durango to 21st Avenue and Ocotillo Road, where the 26-year-old passenger in the Escort fired several shots into the SUV, police investigators said.

It wasn’t immediately clear how police knew the ages of the people in the Escort.

Hmmm, and we just instituted a Wii restriction in our house, we better watch our backs! Hughstan Schlicker, a 15-year-old in Phoenix, Arizona, has admitted that he shot his father with a 12-gauge shotgun because Dad cut off his internet use so Schlicker couldn’t go on MySpace. Sheesh, Hughstan, couldn’t you have just gone and used the computer at the library instead?

Police arrested Hughstan after the slaying at the Pueblo Seco Condominiums and accused him of first-degree murder.

After the slaying, “the defendant first called his friend and told her what he had done. He told her he was going to kill himself but she told him not to. She convinced him to call the police and deal with the situation,” the report said.

Hughstan told detectives that he used the Internet to communicate with his friends and since his father took the Internet away, he was “just so depressed all the time,” the report said. Specifically, Hughstan said he hated his father because he was restricting his use of the MySpace Web site, MyFOXPhoenix reports.

While this could be a very dangerous situation, my hope is that this dumb 13 year old was arrested to scare the be-Jesus outta him and that they’ll drop the charges (assuming he doesn’t already have a record).

He’s dumb. He’s a kid. He needs some sense knocked into him, not prison time, in my opinion.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested Monday night on suspicion of reckless endangerment after he allegedly pointed a green laser at a Phoenix Police Department helicopter, police said.

The helicopter was struck with the laser around 6:30 p.m., police said.

“As soon as I saw the light, I tried to turn my eyes away,” said Phoenix police Officer Bruce Bates, who had been flying the helicopter Monday night.

Can’t we all just get along?

PHOENIX (AP) — A 12-year-old boy stabbed his 13-year-old brother during a fight over what to watch on television, police said.

The 13-year-old was listed in extremely critical condition Monday night. The brothers were fighting in the living room of their southwest Phoenix home Monday afternoon.

After a 12 year old is beaten to death by her parents, they proceed to leave her body on the floor for a few days before they call the police. They probably decided to do that after the body’s odor overcame them.

Wow. Just Wow.

PHOENIX — A 12-year-old girl was beaten with an electrical cord, and her parents left her dead body on the floor of her bedroom for days before they called 911, according to court documents released Tuesday.

Police arrested the girl’s father, 34-year-old Jeffrey Duchane Jr., and stepmother, 25-year-old Reiko Troupe, after officers were called to the house on Saturday. Troupe was jailed on suspicion of first-degree murder and child abuse. Duchane was jailed on suspicion of child abuse.

Both were scheduled to appear in Maricopa County Superior Court on Nov. 19. The Associated Press asked the county Sheriff’s Office to interview Duchane and Troupe, but those requests went unanswered Tuesday.

According to court documents, Troupe told police that she didn’t harm the girls and blamed Duchane for disciplining the children.

A mother, working at Hooters in Pheonix, Arizona, allegedly forgot her toddler in the back seat of her car when she went to work. She forgot to drop her baby off at daycare and returned to her car where she discovered her dead son.

This happens so often and why??? Why are parents forgetting about their most precious cargo? Why are daily distractions enough to forget about your own baby? Why is it so common? Could this happen to you??

PHOENIX — A 17-month-old boy left unattended inside a hot car for at least seven hours in a north Phoenix Hooters restaurant parking lot was found dead Tuesday afternoon.

FOX 10 Phoenix reports the baby’s mother had planned to drop the child off at childcare before heading to work at a restaurant near Bell Road and Interstate 17.

Instead, authorities say the mother went to work with the child still inside the car.