Jordan Brown allegedly shot Kenzie Marie Houk, 26, as she lay in bed on Friday morning. He then boarded the bus and went to school, where authorities later arrested him.
Miss Houk's body was discovered by police at her isolated Wampum, Pennsylvania farmhouse after her four-year-old daughter told tree cutters on the property that she believed her mother was dead.
Jordan was charged as an adult on Saturday with criminal homicide and criminal homicide of an unborn child, and was being held in the Lawrence County Jail with a preliminary hearing scheduled for Thursday.
But a prison warden said that his 300-inmate jail could not offer proper long-term care for Jordan and asked that he be moved to a juvenile detention centre.
The child is alleged to have used his own 20-gauge shotgun to kill Miss Houk, who was eight months pregnant.
When he was initially questioned by police, he told officers that there had been a black truck on the property that morning – sending investigators to follow a false lead for about five hours.
Inconsistencies in the boy's description of the truck led police to re-interview Miss Houk's 7-year-old daughter, who implicated the boy in the killing, said John Bongivengo, the Lawrence County district attorney.
The shotgun used in the killing is specially designed for children. It has a shorter arm and such weapons do not have to be registered, Mr Bongivengo said.
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