Son, 10, says he shot Neo-Nazi dad

[The Straight Story]

Son, 10, says he shot Neo-Nazi dad

The 10-year-old son of a white supremacist leader told investigators during questioning that he intentionally shot his father with a handgun inside their Riverside home, police said.

Riverside police were still verifying the boy's statement as to what happened when Jeff Russell Hall was shot and killed at about 4 a.m. Sunday. The shooting had nothing to do with the 32-year-old man's neo-Nazi political activities with the National Socialist Movement, Lt. Ed Blevins said by phone Tuesday.

"We don't want to say a motive until we can verify what occurred," Blevins said. "We believe it was an intentional act. We think we know what happened, but tomorrow it could be something completely different."

http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_D_whall04.9c8f4d.html

[brewens]

1. If you somehow managed to make a 10 year old kid want to

shoot you, I would imagine you'd have it coming to you.

Possibly some kind of all out stupidity training, where guns are toys and shooting people is fun, combined with easy access to guns. That would just be a natural selection situation.

[TheMadMonk]

2. Wife basher would be my first guess.

Sexual abuse is a possiblity, but it doesn't feel quite right.

If any training was involved, it would be more likely along the lines of "You're becoming a man. You must learn to protect what's yours yourself." And dad is so sure of his ownership of his wife, that he loses sight of the fact that a child may well have an even stronger sense of "ownership".