10-Year-Old Boy Kills His Mom Over Video Game

A 10-year-old Wisconsin boy has fatally shot his mother over a pair of virtual reality goggles used for video gaming.

The deadly shooting happened at the boy’s home when apparently the mother refused to buy the obviously troubled boy the headsets for Christmas.

Steve Frisch has lived near the home in the 8700 block of Hemlock for more than two decades.

He described the family as average.

“They just asked me how I’m doing and stuff like that,” Frisch recalled. According to a criminal complaint, the boy originally told police he accidentally shot his mom when he was twirling the gun.

But the next day, the family called police with serious concerns.

They said the boy told his aunt he was “actually aiming the gun at his mother.” The boy said he got the gun because he was mad at his mom for waking him up at 6 in the morning and that she would not allow him to order a virtual reality headset from Amazon, according to detectives.

Police said the boy told them he got the gun by taking his mom’s keys to the gun safe, adding that he took up a shooting stance and that he wanted to shoot the wall to scare her, but she walked in front of him.

Other family members told the police the boy had “rage issues” all his life, and at 4 years old, he picked up a puppy by its tail and swung it around until it whined in pain.

The criminal complaint states that six months ago, the 10-year-old filled a balloon with a flammable liquid and set it on fire, which caused a sectional and carpet in their home to catch on fire.

A sibling also told police the 10-year-old was meeting with a therapist who gave him a concerning diagnosis that led his mother to place cameras inside their home.

However, for some unknown reason, the cameras were unplugged two weeks ago.

A family member told police that they “felt bad for not stepping in earlier … Because they knew that eventually, something bad was going to happen.”

Police said that one day after shooting his mother dead, the pre-teen went ahead and callously ordered the headsets using his dead mother’s Amazon account.

Prosecutors have charged the child with first-degree intentional homicide.

The judge set bail at $50,000; unbelievably, the boy’s court-appointed attorney asked that the bail be reduced to $100 because the boy said he could pay that amount “from his piggybank.” “We have spoken to him about his ability to post anything. He told us about piggy banks with savings that he had from gifts, from birthday gifts. And scavenging through cushions in the couch that he’s been able to save up,” said Angela Cunningham, the child’s attorney.

The judge did not reduce bail.

If the boy is unable to post bail, he may remain in custody now and for the rest of his life, if convicted of intentional homicide.