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10-year-old shoots and kills mother over virtual reality headset
Washington Examiner ^ | December 01, 2022 02:41 PM | by Jenny Goldsberry, Social Media Producer |

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.


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To: Red Badger

Spare the rod spoil the child.

Spoil them and get shot

You teach them they don’t teach you the price is high.


41 posted on 12/01/2022 2:06:38 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: Red Badger

At first, I read it as “virtual reality headSHOT”.
Whoops.


42 posted on 12/01/2022 2:10:00 PM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: popdonnelly
This society just gets worse. Anybody for advocating simple decency, as a start?

We've got a president who sniffs women's hair and fondles little girls. We've got a long way to go just to arrive at simple decency.
43 posted on 12/01/2022 2:41:52 PM PST by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: L,TOWM

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.

111111111111111111111111111111111111111

He’s being tried as an adult.


44 posted on 12/01/2022 3:03:19 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Best left handed banjer picker on my whole block.)
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To: moovova

Yep.


45 posted on 12/01/2022 3:21:42 PM PST by sauropod (Fascists also buy Comcast cable packages" - Olby - Wanna buy mine?)
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To: Red Badger

Matthew 10:21?


46 posted on 12/01/2022 7:09:35 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: EEGator
Doesn't surprise me. In my hospitals psych unit about two years ago there was a ten year old kid under observation for threatening to stab his mother to death with a carving knife because she told him to stop playing a video game and do his home work.
47 posted on 12/02/2022 12:26:51 AM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: Red Badger

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


48 posted on 12/02/2022 6:19:21 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Squantos

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’.....................


49 posted on 12/02/2022 6:23:58 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: jmacusa

Every now and then, stuff just comes off the factory line that is defective. We used to have enough moral clarity to know that.


50 posted on 12/05/2022 9:47:13 AM PST by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: L,TOWM
Indeed we did. It was called common sense. And in regard to that kid in my hospitals psych unit, his mother was arguing with the doctor to let her take him home.

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.

51 posted on 12/05/2022 12:07:23 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: Squantos

“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.


52 posted on 12/05/2022 12:10:59 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: Red Badger
Well, I guess things just got real for this boy.

This is not something you can click "NEW GAME" with.

53 posted on 12/05/2022 12:13:20 PM PST by SamAdams76 (4,692,256 | Truth Social | 87,850,338 | Twitter | Trump Followers)
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To: jmacusa

“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.


54 posted on 12/05/2022 2:40:41 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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