Patricide, cheap!

Convinced his 16 years of life wholly qualified him for making the best decisions for himself, a Shreveport, Louisiana, teen managed to prove that belief false while profoundly establishing as fact the old adage of “you get what you pay for.”

Fed up with having his father set the rules by which he was expected to abide, the teen turned to the services of a hired assassin. Probably not the best Shreveport had to offer, the hit man, another young man known to the angry teen, was undoubtedly among the cheapest. In exchange for the services, the other boy requested $5 (U.S.). That sort of discount is going to cost in other ways. Instead of a dead father, all the teen got was arrested.

Police haven’t been able to interrogate the teen because Louisiana law calls for parental permission in the questioning of a minor—a rule complicated by the fact one parent was the intended victim and another is a witness. The alleged hit man, another 16-year-old, was arrested Monday.

by Scott Saxon