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Teen just wanted to kill, police say

Frisco youth admits serial-killer fascination; original suspect cleared


09:30 AM CDT on Wednesday, August 2, 2006

By TIARA M. ELLIS and LINDA STEWART BALL / The Dallas Morning News

A 16-year-old Frisco youth who was fascinated with serial killers and had access to a stolen gun [emphasis mine] went looking for someone to shoot Saturday night – anyone would do, Frisco police said Tuesday.

He wound up with two victims: One of them, Bryan Chevalier, 14, of Frisco, lay in a Dallas hospital bed Tuesday after he was shot in the chest and side while answering the door of his Frisco home last week. He is recovering from the surgery that removed those bullets.

The other victim is a 15-year-old Frisco boy who was falsely accused of the crime and wrongly held in detention. Charges against the boy, one of Bryan's close friends, were dropped.


link below contains some further information
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... af3a9.html

Shows the danger in relying on eyewitnesses for identification.

Kevin

Russ,

I used to be naive and wonder how someones heart could be so dark, to want to do something like this.

Then I went out and read the Death Row convictions at the TDJC website.

Truly, there is no limit to how deep that darkness can be in someone.

I suspect digging into this kid's homelife would be quite revealing.

~Bill

Yes, evil is a lot blacker than anyone of us realize, or ever could realize, I'm sure. Hopefully none of us will find out just how dark that blackness can be.

orc4hire wrote:

KBCraig wrote:Shows the danger in relying on eyewitnesses for identification.

Kevin

They didn't even have that.

They had the victim as witness, repeatedly saying it was his friend (the falsely arrested boy) who shot him.

But no, there was no 3rd party witness.

Kevin

orc4hire wrote:The story I heard said that the boy was repeating his friend's name, but didn't say anything about him saying it was his friend who shot him.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... af3a9.html

Bryan's parents said bad lighting, a recent argument with his buddyand the trauma of being shot could have contributed to wrongly naming his friend.

"We acted on good faith, based on the victim naming him specifically as the shooter," Sgt. McFarlin said. "Even last night, when we were dealing with the second suspect, the victim as late as 9 p.m. was still naming his friend."

Kevin

My sister doesn't live to far from Frisco. I printed out the article for when the subject comes up.