The minor of 15 years accused of shooting his mother in the face because she did not buy a virtual reality helmet on Amazon made the order the next day.
Prosecutors in the case in Milwaukee indicated that the boy faces charges as an adult of first degree reckless homicide and remains in custody in a juvenile detention center.
Due to his young age, the authorities will not reveal his identity.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report indicates that initially the defendant told the Police that he obtained the weapon from his mother’s room, on 15 November, at about 7 am
According to that first version, he proceeded to move to the basement of the house where the mother did laundry.
The alleged The killer indicated that he was rotating the gun around his finger when it went off.
However, the next day, relatives they contacted the authorities des to question the boy’s version, and he admitted to investigators that he intentionally pointed the gun at his mother.
The boy’s aunt said that when she went to pick him up the day after the attack, the boy grabbed a set of keys that contained the weapon’s depository.
When the woman asked him about the incident, the nephew confessed that he pointed the gun at his mother. The victim would have expressed: “Why do you have that? Put it down!”, in reference to the weapon.
The next day, the arrested man entered the woman’s Amazon account and ordered an “Oculus Virtual Reality” headset. In addition, the boy attacked his 7-year-old cousin; the reasons are not clear.
“Really, I am very sorry for what happened. I’m sorry I killed my mom”, the suspect would have told the aunt.
When the officers interviewed the minor again, he stated that he pointed the gun at the mother and tried to shoot a wall to scare her when she walked in front of him. The defendant also indicated that he appropriated the object because his mother picked it up at 6 am instead of 6: 50 am and because she did not let him buy the product in Amazon.
After appearing at a first hearing Friday in Milwaukee County Court, he was set on $
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