Attorney for 10-year-old Wisconsin boy accused of killing his mom asks to lower bail to $100 - NBC News

An lawyer for a 10-year-old Wisconsin lad accused of fatally shooting his mother due to the fact that she wouldn't let him to bid a virtual world headset from Amazon asked for the child's bail to beryllium lowered from $50,000 to $100, tribunal records show.

During a tribunal proceeding Wednesday, the attorney, Angela Cunningham, asked for the little bail magnitude due to the fact that the kid has nary root of income, NBC affiliate WTMJ of Milwaukee reported.

“My squad and I person spoken to him astir his quality to station anything. He told america astir piggy banks with savings that helium had from gifts, from day gifts and scavenging done cushions successful the sofa that he's been capable to prevention up,” Cunningham said successful court, according to the quality station.

A justice denied the request, keeping bail astatine $50,000. The tribunal besides acceptable a question regularisation if bail is posted, requiring the lad to enactment successful Milwaukee.

The location successful Milwaukee wherever a 10-year-old changeable his mother.WGBA

Attorneys for the child, who was charged arsenic an big with first-degree reckless homicide and first-degree intentional homicide, asked for the second complaint to beryllium dropped, according to tribunal records. A determination has not been made connected that matter.

The boy's attorneys did not instantly instrumentality requests for remark connected Friday.

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

Just a time later, the lad went connected to bargain an Oculus Virtual Reality Headset connected his dormant mother’s Amazon relationship and adjacent asked his grandma whether his bundle had arrived, according to the transgression complaint.

His 44-year-old mother, identified by WTMJ as 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 the weapon "accidentally went off" arsenic helium was twirling it astir his finger, but aboriginal admitted helium wasn't twirling the weapon erstwhile helium allegedly changeable his mom, according to the complaint.

After helium killed 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, according to the complaint. 

He admitted that “his parent would not let him to person thing from Amazon that helium wanted to have,” it said. 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 getting his mother’s keys to her weapon lockbox the nighttime before, according to the complaint.

The ailment said the lad “admitted to knowing that guns are unsafe and tin termination people.”

His 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 that “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. No further details connected the diagnosis were detailed.

If helium is convicted, the kid faces a maximum of 60 years successful prison.