The boy used a handgun belonging to his grandfather. Photo / Twitter, ABC15
An Arizona boy fatally shot his grandmother, then killed himself at the weekend, after being instructed to clean his room, his grandfather told authorities.
Doyle Herbert called police to report that his wife and their 11-year-old grandson were dead in an apparent murder-suicide, a spokesman for the Maricopa County Sheriff's
Office, Joaquin Enriquez, said.
Hebert told authorities the boy shot his 65-year-old grandmother, Yvonne Woodward, in the back of the head after they'd asked him repeatedly throughout the day to pick up after himself.
The boy was apparently "being stubborn about it," according to the statement. After killing his grandmother, the boy turned the handgun - which belonged to his grandfather - on himself, the statement said.
The couple had just sat down in their living room in their Litchfield Park, Arizona, home, located about 30km west of Phoenix, to watch television when the boy approached his grandmother from behind and shot her, the statement said.
