For one 8-year-old boy in Arizona, heading home for the holidays is a respite unlike most others.
Because after he spends time with his mother, he'll return to juvenile detention where he will await potential first-degree murder charges.
The boy, whose name has not been released because of his age, has been charged with a double homicide for allegedly shooting his father and another man with a single-shot .22 rifle four times each Nov. 5.
He reportedly confessed during an hourlong interrogation video released by the Arizona's Prosecutor's Office.
In the video, the boy admits to the shooting about 40 minutes in, but said it was because his father was already "suffering."
By that point, however, the boy had changed his story several times about the events that had led to the death of the two men.
"I went upstairs and then I saw my dad and then I got the gun and then I fired it at my dad," the boy said calmly. "He was on the ground and then I reloaded it."
When police asked him whether he shot his father because he was mad at him, he offered a noncommittal "hmm," but said he is in trouble "most of the time" at home, mostly for lying.
Police interrogated him without legal counsel present, causing some juvenile defenders to suspect police coercion, which the police deny. more
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