Brazill listens in court on Monday. His videotaped confession was played earlier in the day and the prosecution has since rested. May. Brazill is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Lake Worth Community Middle School teacher Barry Grunow, a father of two, on the last day of classes. Brazill was 13 at the time.
Lake Worth is the city just south of West Palm Beach.
Read the Florida law on juveniles being tried as adults Documents in PDF format require Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing. He said he hoped to enter law enforcement one day and said he once wrote the White House about his hopes of becoming a Secret Service agent protecting the president. About a week before the shooting, he said, he found a gun and bullets inside a cookie tin in his grandfather's room. He was looking for a telephone at the time, he said, and thought he was going to get a cookie out of the tin, when he saw the gun. He said he then hid it in a bag with five bullets, hoping that his uncle would show him how to shoot it during a coming trip to South Carolina.