An angry four-year-old Saudi boy shot and killed his father for refusing to buy him a PlayStation, Saudi media reported on Monday.
The Asharq daily, citing police in the southern Jizan area, said the child, aged four years and seven months, grabbed his father’s pistol and shot him in the head. According to the newspaper, the child had asked his father to buy him a PlayStation and the shooting took place after the man returned home without the desired object.
As he was undressing, the man put the weapon down, which the child then grabbed and fired at him from close range.
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As James points out, there aren’t enough facts to just assume that the child did this out of anger or as a result of not getting a PlayStation from his father. The father was also careless in placing a gun within a child’s reach, a child who may assume that the weapon is a toy (a 4 year old might not know better)…