Video: Boy influenced by plot in 'Criminal Minds'

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A 10-year-old boy who fatally shot his father told police he didn’t think he’d get in trouble because he saw an episode of “Criminal Minds” where a child killed an abusive father and was not arrested, according to a video of the interview played at the boy’s murder trial Wednesday.

“A bad father did something to his kids and the kid did the exact same thing I did — he shot him,” the boy said in the interview as reported by the Riverside Press-Enterprise. “He told the truth and wasn’t arrested and the cops believed him. He wasn’t in trouble or anything. I thought maybe the exact same thing would happen to me.”