Posted on 12/01/2022 12:25:26 PM PST by Red Badger
A 10-year-old boy is in a Wisconsin juvenile detention center on allegations he shot and killed his mother because he wanted a virtual reality headset.
Children's Court Judge Marshall B. Murray is holding the unidentified boy under a $50,000 bond on charges of first-degree reckless homicide. He is being charged as an adult, which is in accordance with state law when it comes to crimes of this degree.
The boy admitted to police that he retrieved the gun from his mother's bedroom and shot her on accident on Nov. 21, according to the criminal complaint. His 26-year-old sister called the police and the next day more family members would alert officers that he didn't appear to show remorse and claimed to have shot her on purpose. They also discovered that the next day he used his mother's Amazon account to buy an Oculus Virtual Reality headset.
His family also reported to police that he has a violent past that included hurting the family's pet dog and setting the furniture on fire with a balloon he filled with explosive liquid. While the gun he eventually retrieved was in a lockbox, family members confirmed that the boy had the keys to it.
"This is an absolute family tragedy," the boy's lawyer, Angela Cunningham, told a local outlet. "I don’t think anybody would deny or disagree with that."
Milwaukee Police Department reported 194 murders in 2021, with the state reporting that over 91% of murders involved a firearm, according to the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
Spare the rod spoil the child.
Spoil them and get shot
You teach them they don’t teach you the price is high.
At first, I read it as “virtual reality headSHOT”.
Whoops.
It would not surprise me too much if he messes up another juvenile while he is waiting for the juvenile court to do its thing.
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He’s being tried as an adult.
Yep.
Matthew 10:21?
I’m sensing a dark soul .......
“I confess, without shame, I am sick and tired of fighting... tis only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated... that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.”
William Tecumseh Sherman
Yes, this kid acts just like my brother did, and he was diagnosed as a sociopath at 13.
No emotions other than anger, rage and fake love to attain whatever he wants. PURE ‘ID’.....................
Every now and then, stuff just comes off the factory line that is defective. We used to have enough moral clarity to know that.
Here in NJ the law says if you're a danger to yourself or others it is a MANDATORY 72 hour observation period before you're either released or sent to another facility for further treatment, no if ands or buts about it and this stupid woman was trying to take the kid home.
“To those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know’’.
Message left in a Marine bunker, Khe San, South Vietnam, 1968.
This is not something you can click "NEW GAME" with.
“To those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know’’.
Message left in a Marine bunker, Khe San, South Vietnam, 1968.......
Truth needs to be shared ..... thank you.
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