10-year-old boy kills mother because she wouldn't buy virtual reality headset, police say - WLS-TV

MILWAUKEE -- A 10-year-old lad successful Milwaukee is accused of shooting and sidesplitting his ma due to the fact that she wouldn't bargain him a virtual world headset.

The deadly shooting happened past Monday astatine the boy's home.

Steve Frisch has lived adjacent the location successful the 8700-block of hemlock for much than 2 decades.

He described the household arsenic average.

"They conscionable asked maine however I'm doing and worldly similar that," Frisch recalled.

According to a transgression complaint, the lad primitively told constabulary helium accidentally changeable his ma erstwhile helium was twirling the gun.

But the adjacent day, the household called constabulary with superior concerns.

They said the lad told his aunt helium was "actually aiming the weapon astatine his mother."

The lad said helium got the weapon due to the fact that helium was huffy astatine his ma for waking him up astatine 6 successful the greeting and that she would not let him to bid a virtual world headset from amazon, according to detectives.

Police said the lad told them helium got the weapon by taking his mom's keys to the weapon safe, adding that helium took up a shooting stance and that helium wanted to sprout the partition to scare her, but she walked successful beforehand of him.

Family told the constabulary the lad had "rage issues" each his life, and astatine 4-years aged helium picked up a puppy by its process and swung it astir until it whined successful pain.

The transgression ailment states that six months ago, the 10-year-old filled a balloon with flammable liquid and acceptable it connected fire, which caused a sectional and carpet successful their location to drawback connected fire.

A sibling besides told constabulary the 10-year-old was gathering with a therapist who gave him a concerning diagnosis that led his parent to spot cameras wrong their home.

The cameras were unplugged 2 weeks ago.

A household subordinate told constabulary that they "felt atrocious for not stepping successful earlier ... Because they knew that yet thing atrocious was going to happen."

Police said 1 time aft shooting his mom, the lad purchased the headset from her Amazon account.

The boy's grandma said helium told her, "I'm atrocious for sidesplitting my mom," past asked if his Amazon bundle had arrived, according to the transgression complaint.

"Anytime determination is unit that happens successful Milwaukee, whether it's by idiosyncratic that's 10-year-old oregon overmuch older than that, that gives maine pause," Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson told WTMJ. "I don't privation to spot anybody wounded oregon suffer their lives successful the city. In this peculiar case, one don't person the details conscionable yet. This is thing that's conscionable coming to my attraction conscionable this morning."

The lad has been charged with first-degree homicide. Since the lad has been charged arsenic an adult, helium faces up 60 years successful situation if recovered guilty.

His enslaved was acceptable astatine $50,000. He is scheduled to instrumentality to tribunal connected December 7.