DA charges boy with father's murder
Posted at: 11/03/2009 4:29 PM
| Updated at: 11/03/2009 7:01 PM
By: MELANIE DABOVICH Associated Press Writer
A New Mexico boy has been charged with first-degree murder in the August shooting death of his father.
District Attorney Lemuel Martinez says his office filed a petition with the charges Tuesday. Belen Police Sgt. Joe Portio says evidence supports the murder charge but declined to elaborate, citing a request by the boy's attorney, Jeff Buckels.
Police say the boy, who is now 11, shot 42-year-old Bryon Hilburn with a rifle while his 6-year-old sister was in the room, then flagged down officers outside the family's home in Belen, about 30 miles south of Albuquerque.
Police say the boy told them he used his own rifle. According to the report, officers say the boy didn’t show much emotion after the shooting.
When officers interviewed the sister, they say she told them she was in the living room playing video games when she saw her brother with the gun, heared a gunshot, then saw their dad lying on the floor.
Buckels says he hasn't seen the charges but says "the whole idea that a 10-year-old boy is capable of committing deliberate murder is preposterous." The boy remains in the custody of his mother.
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