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MARTINSVILLE, Ind. — A 12-year-old Indiana boy didn’t mean to kill his 6-year-old brother when he pointed what he thought was an unloaded gun at him and pulled the trigger, but he knew better than to take the chance, a judge ruled Friday.
Morgan Superior Court Judge Christopher Burnham acquitted the boy of murder but convicted him of a lesser juvenile charge of reckless homicide.
Burnham said the evidence didn’t prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the boy acted “knowingly or intentionally” when he shot his younger brother, Andrew Frye, on June 30 at their Martinsville home.
