Boy, 10, shoots and kills mother for not buying him VR headset, police say - Yahoo! Voices

A 10-year-old lad successful Wisconsin, who changeable his parent past month, has been charged arsenic an big with archetypal grade reckless homicide.

Authorities said the shooting took spot connected 21 November successful Milwaukee.

According to the transgression ailment filed successful the case, the boy’s parent has been identified arsenic 44-year-old Quiana Mann, reported NBC.

Mann was changeable astatine adjacent scope and the slug entered her close oculus and exited the backmost of her caput done her skull.

A time aft the shooting, the lad proceeded to bargain an Oculus Virtual Reality Headset utilizing his dormant mother’s Amazon account, the ailment stated.

He aboriginal apologised for shooting his parent and past asked whether his bundle had arrived.

Police said the lad had initially told authorities that helium was twirling the weapon astir his digit erstwhile it “accidentally went off”.

But successful consequent interviews with the constabulary the lad said that helium had changeable his mother.

He said that “his parent would not let him to person thing from Amazon that helium wanted to have”, the ailment said.

He besides admitted to retrieving the weapon due to the fact that helium was aggravated astatine her for waking him up astatine 6am erstwhile helium usually sleeps until 6:30am.

He said helium got the keys to his mother’s weapon lockbox the nighttime before, according to the complaint.

The lad “admitted to knowing that guns are unsafe and tin termination people”, according to the complaint.

After shooting his mother, helium went to the 2nd level and informed his 26-year-old sister and begetter who past called the police.

According to the boy’s sister, helium has had “rage issues” each of his beingness and “five antithetic imaginary radical that speech to him”.

Earlier helium was fixed a “concerning diagnosis” by a therapist and his parent had placed cameras wrong the location to ticker him, reported TMJ4.

Two weeks earlier the shooting, “someone had unplugged these cameras”, the ailment stated.

The lad was charged with first-degree reckless homicide and could look a maximum of 60 years successful situation if convicted.

Milwaukee politician Cavalier Johnson said: “Anytime determination is simply a transgression successful the city, whether it’s by a 10-year-old oregon idiosyncratic overmuch older, it’s concerning.”

“I don’t privation radical getting hurt. As for this case, I’m conscionable learning astir it. I got the details this morning,” helium said.