美8岁小男孩开枪打死90岁老太太

The child had just finished playing "Grand Theft Auto IV" before he fatally shot Marie Smothers, 90, inside a Louisiana mobile home, police said. But state law prevents children under 10 from being charged with a crime.

根据警方消息，美国路易斯安那州的一名8岁男孩在玩了“侠盗猎车手”以后，将同在移动房屋里看护自己的90岁老太太玛丽.马特尔斯开枪打死。根据州立法案，对10岁以下的未成年人不被指控为犯罪，所以这名8岁小孩将免于法律制裁。

Police believe an 8-year-old boy intentionally killed his 90-year-old caregiver when he shot her in the back of the head while she watched television inside the mobile home.

警方认为，这名字8岁的孩子是故意杀人。作为看护的玛丽当时正在移动屋里面看电视，被孩子从后脑处枪击致死。

But the child won’t be charged with a crime.

然而孩子并不会被指控为犯罪。

The boy fatally shot his elderly caregiver, Marie Smothers, after playing “Grand Theft Auto IV” — a video game critics often blame for promoting violence

根据警方描述，孩子是在玩了“侠盗猎车手”以后开枪打死玛丽的。而“侠盗猎车手”一直被人们认为是个很暴力的游戏。

Smothers was sitting in a chair and watching television when the unidentified boy fired one round into the back of her head.

玛丽当时坐在椅子上看电视，男孩从她脑后开了枪。

The boy was taken into custody at the scene, but later released to his parents, because Louisiana state law prevents children under 10 from being charged with a crime.

事情发生以后，男孩被监护起来，但不久就被他的父母领走，因为根据美国路易斯安那州的立法，不到10岁的未成年人不能指控犯罪。

“You have a child that does not know the impact or the consequences of the act that he has committed,” Sclynski Legier, an attorney, said. “He truly doesn’t understand that.”

本案代理律师Sclynski Legier讲“孩子其实不知道自己的行为会有怎样的结果和影响，因为他根本不理解发生了什么。”

The child initially told investigators that he accidentally shot Smothers while playing with the loaded pistol. But police later determined the elderly woman was targeted.

孩子最开始告诉调查人员他当时在玩手枪，枪击老太太是个意外。然而警方之后认为这不是个意外，他当时开枪的目标就是老太太。

Cops didn’t reveal a motive for the killing, but said that the boy was close to the woman he allegedly shot.“By accounts of relatives of the victim, as well as friends of the family, the victim and the juvenile had a normal, loving relationship,” police officials said.

至于当时男孩开枪的动机，警方还没有明确。但是根据相关调查，男孩和老太太的关系是很亲密的。“根据许多老太太的亲属以朋友提供的线索，老太太身前和男孩的关系正常，也很亲密。”警放透露。

Investigators found that the boy had just finished playing the video game that police called “a realistic game that has been associated with encouraging violence and awards points to players for killing people.”

警方的调查显示，在案发前，男孩玩过游戏。警方认为这个暴力游戏很逼真，游戏中的奖惩规则是鼓励玩家在游戏中杀人的。

The boy’s father told WAFB-TV that his son used the elderly woman’s .38-caliber pistol to commit the murder. Although the child dodged criminal charges, he still faces penalties under the juvenile system, officials said.

男孩的父亲告诉电视台，男孩当时用的手枪式老太太自己携带的38口径手枪。官方透露，尽管男孩没有被指控为犯罪，他任然要接受青少年犯罪的惩罚。