http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/10/19/russia.shooting/index.html
MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) -- A 13-year-old Russian schoolboy shot dead his parents while they slept after his father beat him for getting low marks at school, Izvestia newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Investigators in the Siberian town of Talmenka, quoted by the newspaper, said Alexander Bykov's father returned home from a school meeting with teachers and gave him a thrashing for getting a low mark in chemistry.
"My father never used to punish me for school marks," investigators quoted the boy as saying. "This time he turned into a brute."
In the early hours of the morning, he took his father's double-barrelled shotgun, went into his parents' bedroom and shot them while they slept, pausing to reload and refiring.
Izvestia said the young boy planned to drop their bodies in a nearby river, but was unable to start his father's car.
He then enlisted the aid of an 18-year-old friend to toss them into a ravine, but that plan also failed.
Finally, the boy put the bodies into a wardrobe and covered them with sacks, where his 26-year-old sister stumbled upon them the following evening.
Izvestia said regional justice officials had officially opened a murder investigation.
But it quoted sources in the prosecutor's office as saying the boy was undergoing psychiatric examination and was unlikely to be tried because he was a minor.
Morale? As an adult keep the weapons in your OWN room... and lock the door when you go to sleep... or keep the weapons in another room locked with the key in a place only you have access to, etc....
MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) -- A 13-year-old Russian schoolboy shot dead his parents while they slept after his father beat him for getting low marks at school, Izvestia newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Investigators in the Siberian town of Talmenka, quoted by the newspaper, said Alexander Bykov's father returned home from a school meeting with teachers and gave him a thrashing for getting a low mark in chemistry.
"My father never used to punish me for school marks," investigators quoted the boy as saying. "This time he turned into a brute."
In the early hours of the morning, he took his father's double-barrelled shotgun, went into his parents' bedroom and shot them while they slept, pausing to reload and refiring.
Izvestia said the young boy planned to drop their bodies in a nearby river, but was unable to start his father's car.
He then enlisted the aid of an 18-year-old friend to toss them into a ravine, but that plan also failed.
Finally, the boy put the bodies into a wardrobe and covered them with sacks, where his 26-year-old sister stumbled upon them the following evening.
Izvestia said regional justice officials had officially opened a murder investigation.
But it quoted sources in the prosecutor's office as saying the boy was undergoing psychiatric examination and was unlikely to be tried because he was a minor.
Morale? As an adult keep the weapons in your OWN room... and lock the door when you go to sleep... or keep the weapons in another room locked with the key in a place only you have access to, etc....
