10-Year-Old Shot His Mother to Death After She Refused to Buy Him VR Headset: Prosecutors

[GenXer47]

https://lawandcrime.com/crime/10-year-old-shot-his-mother-to-death-after-she-refused-to-buy-him-vr-headset-prosecutors/

Here is a great example for those who say "guns don't kill, people do". Really???

[louis-t]

1. And he still doesn't have a VR headset.

And never will.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

2. That article is disturbing.

Sounds like the kid has some really serious psychological issues.

[Iggo]

21. Also...access to firearms.

[Hortensis]

3. Sounds like classic psychopathy, and ?. It's not rare, and in a nation

of over 300M people there are literally millions who share these traits but function well enough in society to continue. Typically cruel and manipulative, it's common for some to be unusually charismatic.

Family also said the boy engaged in alarming behavior for years. For example, he swung their puppy by the tail until the animal howled. ... the boy allegedly poured some kind of flammable liquid into a balloon. He set fire to it at home, causing an explosion and burning furniture and carpet. Asked by his mother why he did that, he allegedly said his “two sisters told him to do it.” He claimed to hear five imaginary people speaking to him: two sisters, an older woman, a man, and a “mean” man. Family described the boy as having “rage issues.” He was smart and manipulative, they said. It got to the point where relatives refused to babysit him.

With this new information in mind, cops interviewed him again. The boy allegedly confessed to aiming the gun at his mother with both hands. He stated that he took the gun from the lockbox because his mother woke him up 30 minutes early and also would not allow him to buy something on Amazon, police said.

The day after he killed his mother, he ordered the headset himself.

[hauckeye]

4. That was on the local news here in SE Wisconsin

Really terrifying

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. Heartbreaking that this family wasn't able to get the help they all needed.

[Backseat Driver]

13. Had they even tried to seek help? There are many who

deny a child's/sibling's/parent's dangerous mental health status clues. This child sounds very ill, even aggressively psychopathic, with status clues even doctors may shy away from attempting usual types of diagnosis and "help."

[vercetti2021]

6. Reading this article

Kid sounds extremely disturbed from his past actions. Swinging a puppy around by its tail? HUGE HUGE red flag there. Trying to set his home on fire and claiming to hear voices? Kid is a schizo and just a lil fucking monster to boot. He doesn't need to see the outside world again sadly. He's a danger to society. Michael Myers in the making.

[electric_blue68]

7. Most people living w mental illness are Not violent. Abusing Animals, though, IS a sign of....

(and an action of) Cruelty. ,It was a big 🚨 warning sign as you say!

[vercetti2021]

8. I always believe this

You start with hurting/killing animals. You'll eventually adopt to hurting/killing people. This kid did it quickly. Mind you I have depression, anxiety, etc. Not violent here. But not crazy like this kid sadly is. If he is released as an adult, he won't stay out long because he is a serial killer in the making.

[electric_blue68]

15. Unfortunately, you could be right. Or something close to it. (yikes)

[malaise]

9. You have a troubled child in a house

and you also have a gun which he can access.
Ah well.

[3catwoman3]

11. Cruelty to animals and fire setting are both...

...huge signs of serious psychopathology.

[vercetti2021]

14. I had a fire obsession as a kid

Thankfully I came out normal as I can get as an adult. Its weird how fun it was to see things explode or burn as a kid, but now? It's just stupid and hurts when you get burned.

[3catwoman3]

12. Cruelty to animals and fire setting are both...

...huge signs of serious psychopathology.

[FakeNoose]

16. This kid reminds me of "The Bad Seed"

Remember that old movie with Patty McCormick? Wow this boy has some real issues.

In most cases I'd want to blame the mother for being irresponsible for not locking up her gun.
But Jeez, this boy is just some little devil-child. What a tragedy for the family.

[kskiska]

19. I doubt this kid

appeared as "cute" and creepily polite as psycopathic Patty (Rhoda) pretended to be.

[jmowreader]

22. She DID lock it up

He found the keys for the lockbox, got the gun out, and executed her for the “crime” of not getting him a VR headset.

[Jilly_in_VA]

17. And they still

apparently want to charge him as an adult!!! WTF, Wisconsin?

[Fullduplexxx]

18. That little monster needs to be locked up so he doesn't kill anyone else

[Tickle]

20. He's very disturbed

He went right to the bedroom to get the gun. Think about that, he got mad and his thought process was to go to his mother's bed room get the gun and go down to the cellar after his mom. I just give up. This is crazy