Family speaks out about 10-year-old boy who shot and killed mom over a VR headset - Daily Mail

A 10-year-old lad who is charged with fatally shooting his parent for refusing to bargain him a VR headset seems much preoccupied with his gadgets than the execution arsenic helium faces trial, household members say.

The Milwaukee lad is charged arsenic an big with first-degree reckless homicide successful the November 21 sidesplitting of Quiana Mann, 44, who was changeable successful the look successful their home.

The boy's aunt Rhonda Reid told WTMJ-TV connected Tuesday that erstwhile she talks to him successful custody, helium claims not to retrieve the shooting and rapidly shifts the speech to his favourite topic. 

'When helium calls, he's conscionable like, 'make definite each my tablets and laptop and everything of excavation is decently packaged,'' Reid said. 

Meanwhile, the boy's grandmother Lueritha Mann said she can't bring herself to talk to him, telling the outlet: 'I anticipation I bash 1 day, but close present no. He took thing precise precious from me.'

'I can't judge helium did it,' the grandma said, adding, 'he needs to wage for what he's done.'

Reid said that her nephew had been attending therapy for much than a twelvemonth for temper and behaviour disorders, and portion of his attraction program included limiting entree to physics devices.

She said the lad 'was upset astir these devices being taken away'. 

Prosecutors accidental that aft his parent refused to bargain him a $500 Oculus VR headset, helium changeable her successful the look and utilized her recognition paper to acquisition 1 of the devices online. 

The lad past allegedly told his grandma helium was 'sorry' for sidesplitting his parent and asked wherever his bundle was. 

Earlier this month, the boy's attorney, Angela Cunningham, asked for a bail simplification from $50,000 to $100, the magnitude helium has successful his piggy bank, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. 

'We person spoken to him astir his quality to station anything,' Cunningham told the court.

'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.' 

Judge Jane Carroll denied the petition and imposed a question regularisation connected the insignificant that volition spell into effect if helium manages to station bail.

The kid who, according to household members has 'rage issues' and hears imaginary people, has been charged with first-degree reckless homicide and volition beryllium tried arsenic an adult.

Wisconsin authorities instrumentality dictates that children arsenic young arsenic 10 volition beryllium charged arsenic adults for superior crimes, specified arsenic murder. He faces up to 60 years successful situation if convicted.

The information that the lad volition beryllium tried arsenic an big has created immoderate headaches for Carroll, arsenic she noted that each the accustomed factors erstwhile deciding bail conditions 'don't marque a batch of consciousness erstwhile applied to a 10-year-old.' 

She pointed retired that the lad has nary location of his own, not job, nary existent assets, nary mode of attending tribunal by himself oregon a anterior transgression history. 

Because he's being charged arsenic an adult, Carroll besides rejected prosecutors petition that the lad beryllium released to the custody of a household subordinate if helium does station bail. 

The justice sided with the defence attorney, noting that specified a information wouldn't beryllium required for an adult. 

The lad is presently being held successful juvenile detention and has not been publically identified by constabulary oregon prosecutors. 

The boy initially told constabulary that the shooting was an accident. He claimed Mann had walked successful beforehand of him portion aiming astatine a partition to 'scare her', and helium accidentally changeable her successful the head, according to transgression charges obtained by the Journal Sentinel. 

He aboriginal said successful a 2nd interview, however, that helium intentionally aimed astatine his parent earlier shooting her astatine their location connected 87th Street adjacent Hemlock astatine astir 7am connected November 21. 

After the shooting, helium enactment the weapon successful the closet and told his older sister Brianna Moore, 26, that mother, who worked successful behavioral health, was dead, the ailment read. Moore past called 911. 

The lad was allowed to enactment with family, and an archetypal merchandise from constabulary said the shooting was caused by a kid 'playing' with a gun. 

A time later, acrophobic relatives called the police.

The boy's aunt said that erstwhile she collected the boy, helium retrieved a acceptable of location keys that contained a cardinal to the gun's lockbox. When his aunt asked astir the shooting, the lad said helium pointed the weapon astatine his ma and that she told him to enactment it down.

The boy's aunt and sister said helium ne'er cried oregon showed remorse and had besides physically attacked his seven-year-old relative the aforesaid day.

The boy's household said helium has 'concerning' intelligence wellness issues, and has exhibited disturbing behaviour successful the past. 

When helium was four, the lad allegedly swung the family's puppy astir by its tail, the ailment says. Six months ago, the household told police, the lad filled a balloon with a flammable liquid and acceptable it connected fire, causing an detonation that burned furnishings and the carpet. 

When asked wherefore helium did it, the lad said 'two sisters told him to bash it.' 

The lad told his household helium hears 5 imaginary radical talking to him, who helium said are 2 sisters, an aged woman, and 2 'mean' men.  

A sister besides said successful the ailment that her member has had 'rage issues' each his beingness and becomes 'very aggravated and acts out.'