Father shot dead for telling him to sleep: 11-year-old arrested

 

 

PP Cherian

Pennsylvania: An 11-year-old boy shot and killed his father in Pennsylvania, USA, for asking him to sleep and stopping him from playing a game. The victim was 42-year-old Douglas Dietz. Police have arrested his son Clayton Dietz in the incident.

The tragic incident took place on the boy's birthday. After the birthday celebrations at night, his parents sent him to bed without allowing him to play games. Enraged by this, the boy took out a gun kept by his father and shot him in the head while he was sleeping.

The boy found the key to the safe in his father's drawer and loaded the gun inside it and carried out the crime.

The boy confessed to his mother and police that he had killed his father. He told the police that he had not thought about what would happen when he shot him and that he did it out of anger.

The boy, who is currently being held in the Perry County Jail, will be arraigned in court on January 22. Dietz and his wife adopted Clayton in 2018.