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Texas dad shoots adult son, gives 20 min ‘father-son’ talk before stabbing him to death

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Sherman Shirley Fricks Sr,
Pictured who was arrested in the shooting, stabbing death of his son, Sherman Palmer Fricks Jr
Sherman Shirley Fricks Sr,
Pictured Sherman Shirley Fricks Sr, who was arrested in the shooting, stabbing death of his son, Sherman Palmer Fricks Jr.

Texas dad, Sherman Shirley Fricks Sr, shoots adult son, Sherman Palmer Fricks Jr, gives 20 min ‘father-son’ talk before stabbing him to death. 

Texas man has been accused of shooting his adult son multiple times and then proceeding to have a 20-minute long ‘father-son’ talk with him after realizing his son was still alive before fatally stabbing the 27 year old with a kitchen knife, prosecutors said.

Sherman Shirley Fricks Sr., 68, was arrested Sunday and charged with first-degree felony murder in the death of Sherman Palmer Fricks Jr., in their Deer Park home located outside of Houston reported foxnews.

During a probable cause hearing on Monday, prosecutors said Fricks Sr. said he had called law enforcement on his son in the past but the two were never able to ‘fix it.’ ‘So today, he decided to fix it,’ a prosecutor said, according to The Houston Chronicle.

The day before the incident, the father visited a local electronics store with his son after the son’s phone broke. On the ride over, the son began kicking the back of the front passenger’s seat where the father’s girlfriend was sitting.

Prosecutors argued that Fricks Sr. planned to shoot his son in the back the next day. Fricks Sr. allegedly waited with a .380 pistol for his son to return home from lunch. When the dad asked what his son had ordered and the son gave a ‘smart’ remark, prosecutors said Fricks Sr. ‘started shooting at him until nothing else came out of the handgun.’

When he realized his son was still alive, he started a ‘father-son’ talk with him until stabbing him with a kitchen knife 20 minutes later, prosecutors said.

Police responding to the domestic disturbance call found Fricks Jr. with several injuries and immediately performed CPR on him before transporting him to Bayshore Hospital. He was later pronounced dead at the medical center.

Fricks Sr. could face life in prison if convicted. He was released after posting $60,000 in bail.

According to Neighborhood Scout approximately 47 percent of Texas communities have a higher crime rate than Deer Park, whose roughly 34,000 residents have a 1 in 63 chance of becoming a victim of crime in the area

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