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In Wisconsin in the United States, a 10-year-old boy has just been charged as an adult with first degree homicide.
He allegedly murdered his mother after she refused to buy him an expensive virtual reality headset on Amazon.
The child, whose name is withheld due to his age, shot his 44-year-old mother, Quiana Mann , eye-to-eye at close range inside their Milwaukee home on November 21. He gained access to his mother's gun after using her keys to retrieve it from a locked safe before committing the crime.
Afterwards, he first tried to hide the gun before later informing his older sister that their mother was dead.
At the time of his arrest, police initially said the boy confessed to turning the murder weapon around his finger and accidentally shooting to kill his mother. After this confession, the boy will be released because of his age. But the next day, his family expressed serious concern because of some of his behaviors which called into question his psychological profile.
In view of all their concerns, his relatives have filed several complaints which indicate at first that the boy does not regret the act he has committed. For her part, his aunt reported that the boy allegedly told her that he pointed the gun at his mother. This claim is followed by another where this one states that the boy ended up apologizing before asking to know if his Amazon package had arrived. A package he ordered just after his mother's death by logging into his account.
The boy will then be interrogated a second time. This time, he changes the version and informs that his mother woke him up and then prevented him from taking a virtual reality headset on the Amazon online store and that is why he gave it to him. desired. Indeed, recently, he was even followed by a therapist contacted by his late mother. The accused boy faces 60 years in prison for reckless first degree homicide. Depending on the nature of the crime and the motives, he will be judged as an adult.
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