10-year-old Wisconsin boy charged as adult in fatal shooting of mother over Amazon order of VR headset - NBC News

A 10-year-old Wisconsin lad has been charged arsenic an big with first-degree reckless homicide aft helium fatally changeable his mother, telling constabulary helium was upset she wouldn’t fto him bargain a virtual world headset connected Amazon. 

The shooting unfolded astatine 6:50 a.m. connected Nov. 21 successful the 7400 artifact of North 87th Street successful Milwaukee.

Just 1 time later, the lad went connected to bargain an Oculus Virtual Reality Headset connected his dormant mother's Amazon account, and adjacent asked his grandma if his bundle had arrived, according to the transgression complaint.

The 44-year-old mother, identified by NBC affiliate WTMJ of Milwaukee arsenic Quiana Mann, was changeable astatine adjacent range. The slug entered her close oculus and exited the backmost of her caput done her skull, the transgression ailment said. 

The lad initially told investigators that his ma woke him up astatine 6 a.m. and helium retrieved her weapon from her bedroom, went to the basement wherever she was doing laundry, and arsenic helium was twirling the weapon astir his digit it “accidentally went off,” the ailment said.

After sidesplitting his mother, helium went to the 2nd communicative chamber to awaken his 26-year-old sister, who discovered their parent was dormant and called 911. 

But during aboriginal interviews with police, the lad admitted helium was not twirling the weapon astir erstwhile helium changeable his mom.

He admitted that “his parent would not let him to person thing from Amazon that helium wanted to have.” And helium admitted that helium retrieved the weapon due to the fact that helium was huffy astatine her for waking him up astatine 6 a.m. erstwhile helium usually sleeps until 6:30 a.m., and admitted to getting his mother’s keys to her weapon fastener container the nighttime before, according to the complaint.

He went to the basement and took up a shooting stance, the ailment said. He said his parent walked successful beforehand of him erstwhile helium tried to sprout the partition to "scare her" and admitted that helium “shot her successful the look erstwhile she was astir 3 feet away.”

He past enactment the weapon successful the surviving country closet and woke up his sister.

The ailment noted the lad "admitted to knowing that guns are unsafe and tin termination people."

The sister told constabulary that the lad had “rage issues” each his beingness and “becomes precise aggravated and acts out,” the ailment said. The lad told investigators “he has 5 antithetic imaginary radical that speech to him.”

A therapist who had been gathering with the lad gave him a “concerning diagnosis,” the sister said per the complaint, but nary further details connected the diagnosis were detailed.

The parent had besides placed cameras successful the location to ticker him. Two weeks agone anterior to the shooting, the sister learned from her parent that idiosyncratic had unplugged the cameras, the ailment said.

Police besides interviewed different household members, including an aunt of the lad who told constabulary helium “never cried and showed nary remorse” regarding his mother's death. 

The greeting aft the shooting connected Nov. 22, the lad logged onto his mother's Amazon relationship and ordered an Oculus Virtual Reality Headset, his sister told investigators.

That aforesaid morning, the boy's aunt took him to his grandmother's location to conscionable with Child Protective Services workers.

The affidavit said that, upon his arrival, helium saw his grandma crying and helium “stated without immoderate empathy oregon compassion: ‘I’m truly atrocious for what happened. I’m atrocious for sidesplitting my mom.’”  

After apologizing for sidesplitting his mother, “he past asked if his Amazon bundle arrived."

The lad made his archetypal tribunal quality Friday and a currency enslaved of $50,000 was set, online tribunal records show. His adjacent presumption proceeding is acceptable for Dec. 7.

If convicted, helium faces a maximum of 60 years successful prison. NBC News has reached retired to the boy's lawyer for comment.