A 10-year-old boy in Milwaukee has been accused of fatally shooting his mother in the head at close range over a VR headset. He could face a maximum of 60 years in prison.
his mother in the head at close range over a VR headset. He has been charged as an adult with first degree reckless homicide and could face a maximum of 60 years in prison. A recently unsealed criminal complaint reveals disturbing details of the killing and the boy’s history of violent and troubling behavior.is not naming the defendant because of the boy’s young age and is not naming his mother because she is unnamed in the court documents.
According to the complaint, the boy initially told police he was twirling the gun around his finger when it “accidentally went off.” In a second police interview, he revised his story of what happened the morning of Nov. 21. He said that the night before, he had taken his mother’s keys — including the key to the gun’s lock box. In the morning, he had retrieved her his mother’s gun because he was angry that she’d woken him up at 6:00, when he usually sleeps until 6:30.
After shooting his mother, the boy told police, he put the gun in a closet, then went to the second floor of the house, to wake his 26-year-old sister. He told her he thought their mother was dead. She discovered the body and called 911. A neighbor, who described the boy’s 44-year-old mother as “sweet” and “a nice lady,” said he heard screaming from their house that morning.
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