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Boy, 10, Accused of Fatally Shooting Mom Because He Was Angry She Wouldn’t Buy Him Virtual Reality Headset

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Emily Cortez

Published Feb 05, 2026

A 10-year-old Wisconsin kid will be charged as a grown-up after purportedly killing his mom when she wouldn’t permit him to purchase a costly computer generated simulation headset from Amazon, as per a criminal grumbling got by Individuals.

On Nov. 21, Quiana Mann, 44, was shot in the eye at short proximity at her Milwaukee home, supposedly by her child, who has not been freely named because of his age, as per the objection.

The protest claims that after the shooting, the kid previously had a go at concealing the weapon, and afterward told his more seasoned sister their mom was dead, and the sister called 911.

The youngster purportedly utilized Mann’s keys to eliminate the firearm from her locked weapon protected at around 7 a.m. on Nov. 21. He supposedly told analysts he’d taken the weapon out in light of the fact that he was irate Mann had gotten him up 30 minutes ahead of schedule, and on the grounds that he was disturbed she wouldn’t allow him to purchase the headset from Amazon.

On one occasion after the killing, he signed into his departed mother’s Amazon record to purchase the Oculus Computer generated Reality Headset at any rate, the protest asserts.

After the shooting, the kid at first told police he’d shot his mother coincidentally, per the grumbling. He was permitted to remain at home with his family by then.

Notwithstanding, the following day, family members called police with worries about whether the 10-year-old was coming clean.

As indicated by the grievance, he purportedly later told his auntie he had “really [been] holding back nothing his mom.”

Relatives told investigators the kid experienced “rage issues” for what seems like forever, the protest says. At four years of age, the kid supposedly held his pup by the tail and spun him around until the canine “cried and wailed in torment.” He likewise purportedly lit a fire in the home by filling an inflatable with combustible fluid and setting it burning, per the grievance.

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A relative likewise told specialists the young man “has five distinct fanciful individuals that discussion to him.”

These nonexistent individuals are portrayed as two sisters, an old woman, and two men, the grievance states. The kid as of late gotten a “concerning conclusion” from a specialist, driving Mann to put cameras around the home, the grievance expresses, as indicated by records from a specialist. Sadly, somebody turned off the cameras before the shooting.

“He’s constantly said that he hears voices,” the youngster’s grandma, Lueritha Mann, told The Everyday Monster. “We took a stab at assisting her with him,” Lueritha likewise told the Monster.

“We all, everyone that realizes her, even her congregation individuals. We as a whole had a go at assisting her with him since we realized he had a dysfunctional behavior.”

Mann, who worked in conduct wellbeing, had four kids. A GoFundMe her family put in a position to assist with memorial service costs says Mann had a “feeling of giving” and “an affection for God that sparkled so brilliantly it supplanted any agony she might have encountered.” The 10-year-old is being accused of first-degree wild crime and is being hung on $50,000 bail.

Whenever sentenced for the charges, he could have to deal with upwards of 60 years in jail. Milwaukee police tell Individuals in a proclamation that the division is as yet “examining the deadly shooting … that happened on Monday, November 21, 2022, at roughly 6:50 a.m.” “MPD might want to remind general society to keep guns got with a weapon keep and out of the span of youngsters,” the police representative says. For additional data on safe gun stockpiling and the best ways of shielding youngsters from unstable guns, visit BeSMARTforkids.org.