A Domino’s pizza order receipt led to the arrest of a 12-year-old boy in Wisconsin who allegedly killed his adult neighbor for his guns, according to court records.
The name of the minor defendant who is charged with first-degree intentional homicide was redacted in a criminal complaint obtained by NBC News on Wednesday from the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office.
The complaint said the minor allegedly killed Brandon Felton, 34, on March 15, at Felton’s home. The boy was neighbors with Felton and the two played video games together, the complaint said.
Felton was found dead by authorities on March 18 in his home lying in a puddle of blood. An autopsy determined he was killed from a single gunshot wound to the head, the complaint said.
Felton’s cousin discovered his body after going to Felton’s home because he had not heard from him for days, the complaint said.
A receipt for a pizza delivery order was found near a spent shell casing, the complaint said.
“Police located a receipt in the living room on an end table (the same end table where the aforementioned casing was found). That receipt was for a ‘Domino’s Pizza’ order which showed an order for food was placed by ‘Brandy,’” the complaint said.
The delivery receipt listed a phone number.
A detective, according to the complaint, called the phone number on the receipt which was answered by a “young-sounding male,” the complaint said. The person who picked up the phone denied knowing someone named Brandy and hung up, the complaint said.
The child’s mother took the boy to speak with police on March 18, the complaint said. The boy said he heard about Felton’s death from his grandmother. The boy when confronted about the pizza order, said the phone was his and no one uses it or has borrowed it.
The boy’s story, according to the complaint, changed several times.
“The Defendant then continuously stated that he did not order food that night and has never ordered food from Felton’s…
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