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- 0:01Speaker 1: Eleven year old Clayton Deets of duncan And, Pennsylvania is
- 0:04Speaker 1: accused of fatally shooting his adoptive father, Douglas Deets, on
- 0:08Speaker 1: the night of his eleventh birthday January thirteenth, twenty twenty six.
- 0:12Speaker 1: HELO I'm or ron Edwards on Today's face from the
- 0:15Speaker 1: EVERGS notebook. According to court documents and police reports, the
- 0:19Speaker 1: shooting occurred after Clayton was told to go to bed
- 0:22Speaker 1: following a birthday celebration. The boy allegedly became very upset
- 0:26Speaker 1: after his dad put away as a Nintendo switch because
- 0:29Speaker 1: it was time for young Clayton to go to bed.
- 0:32Speaker 1: Clayton then allegedly became even more outraged and snuck and
- 0:36Speaker 1: searched for a gun safe, found the keys, retrieved a revolver,
- 0:40Speaker 1: loaded it, and proceeded to upload a bullet into the
- 0:43Speaker 1: skull of his sleeping adopted dad. Clayton was taken into
- 0:47Speaker 1: custody immediately after the shooting and has been charged with
- 0:51Speaker 1: criminal homicide as an adult, and Clayton's preliminary hearing was waived.
- 0:57Speaker 1: The defense plans to appeal the decision, arguing Clayton this
- 1:00Speaker 1: age in psychological development. Warrant juvenile court jurisdiction. I find
- 1:05Speaker 1: that effort a bit rich because there was no previously
- 1:08Speaker 1: known problems with Clayton's psychological development. Perhaps what may have
- 1:11Speaker 1: been lacking was proper parental instruction about right and wrong
- 1:15Speaker 1: and the consequences of evil actions. I'm Ron Edwards. E
- 1:25Speaker 1: Ron Edwards, the New Voice of America.