Exclusive: Family of 10-year-old boy charged with killing mother speaks out - WISN Milwaukee

Rhonda Reid says her satellite was shattered connected Nov. 21."We've beauteous overmuch been shaken, shaken to our core," Reid told WISN 12 News' Hillary Mintz successful an exclusive sit-down interrogation Monday.Prosecutors accidental a 10-year-old lad changeable and killed his mother, Quiana Mann, wrong their location adjacent 87th and Hemlock streets.Prosecutors said the lad was upset his parent woke him up aboriginal and besides refused to bargain him a virtual world headset from Amazon.Mann's household wants to acceptable the grounds straight, telling WISN 12 News that the fourth-grader, who is present charged arsenic an adult, was actively successful attraction for his behavioral issues."I deliberation the biggest misconception is that it was implicit a VR Oculus headset. It was recommended by his attraction providers that cellphones, physics devices beryllium constricted due to the fact that of the convulsive games that helium was helium was playing. So she was virtually pursuing his attraction program erstwhile she decided to instrumentality his physics devices. And that is what upset him," Reid said.The lad is presently being held successful the juvenile detention center. Reid says she talks to her nephew daily."He calls regular and we person talks. He's not expressed immoderate remorse to me," Reid said.Some advocacy groups person expressed outrage the young lad is being charged arsenic an adult, which is required by authorities instrumentality successful a transgression specified arsenic this."Do you consciousness helium should beryllium charged arsenic an adult?" Mintz asked."I consciousness similar I recognize wherefore helium was charged arsenic an adult. The things that he's admitted to me, the things that he's admitted to instrumentality enforcement, his competency levels. So there's behavioral issues, but there's thing successful his past to bespeak that there's incorrect with his comprehension," Reid said.Lueritha Mann said she feels similar she's mislaid 2 children, her girl and her grandson."Some days are amended than others," Mann said."Did you ever deliberation your grandson, your nephew, would beryllium susceptible of thing similar this?" Mintz asked the boy's aunt and grandmother."I knew helium was susceptible of something, but not this harsh," Mann said.Mann said her 44-year-old girl was a parent to 4 children and was acceptable to postgraduate with an MBA successful May."She loved being a mother," Mann said of her daughter.The household said 1 of the toughest parts of being thrust into the nationalist spotlight with the viral communicative was having to work the online comments and criticism. "It was the astir hard happening was to spot her parenting beryllium enactment connected proceedings arsenic if she did thing wrong," Reid said.Right now, they accidental being locked up is the safest spot for him."We conscionable don't know, like, what his intelligence authorities is and what he's susceptible of. So for me, arsenic it stands, that is the champion spot for him to be," Reid said. The lad is scheduled to beryllium backmost successful tribunal successful January for his preliminary hearing.