Gamers turned to murderers
// February 25th, 2009 // No Comments » // Gadgets & Video Games
List of 5 gamers who turned to murderers
5. Dinh The Dan, a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy was accused of robbing and murdering an 81-year-old to fund the money for an online game. He took 100,000 dong from her and buried here in a pile of sand in front of his house. By the way, 100,000 dong is just 6 bucks!
4. A 27-year-old Tyrone Spellman aka Anwar Salahuddin. He’s the guy who likes to do drugs and play Xbox games. He let his daughter, 17-month-old Alayiah Turman, play with one of the Xbox controllers. She started to fuss, like most 17-months-old will, she pulled the controller cord, which caused the entire Xbox system to fall over.
Tyrone Spellman punched his 17-month-old daughter right in the face… twice. He picked her up and threw her down on the wooden chair. Her skull was cracked. He moved her to another room making it look like an accident.
You thought you were smart didn’t you, Spellman?. Too bad the doctors didn’t think so. He faces a maximum penalty of 47 years prison sentence. By the time he gets out, according to our calculations, the Xbox 2160 will be out.
3. Daniel Petric, the 16-year-old son of a preacher. His father, 45-year-old, a pastor at a church and Susie Patric, 43-year-old, his mother. Daniel’s father didn’t want Daniel to play video games that often.
There were a lot of arguing over Daniel’s video games habit. After thinking long and hard, he went to get his dad’s pistol and shot his parents. Susie was dead and his father was in a really really bad condition.
2. The poor Darisabel Baez was beating to death with a video game controller by Harve L. Johnson, her mother’s boyfriend.
This poor little girl had celebrated her second birthday the day before the beating. Neida E. Baez, 19, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and Harve L. Johnson, 26, is charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, endangering the welfare of a child and reckless endangerment. These two people are such douchebags!.
1.The-18-year-old Devin Moore shot three police officers in Alabama. Moore acted out a scenario found in Grand Theft Auto III: The player is a street thug trying to take over the city.
In one scenario, the player can enter a police precinct, steal a uniform, free a convict from jail, escape by shooting police, and flee in a squad car. Moore’s victims were Ace Mealer, a 911 dispatcher; James Crump, a police officer; and Arnold Strickland, another officer who was on patrol in the early morning hours of June 7, 2003, when he brought in Moore on suspicion of stealing a car.
Here is something to think about
Does repeated exposure to violent video games have more of an impact on a teenager than it does on an adult?
It does. David Walsh, a child psychologist who’s co-authored a study connecting violent video games to physical aggression, says the link can be explained in part by pioneering brain research recently done at the National Institutes of Health — which shows that the teenage brain is not fully developed.
And that’s largely because the teenage brain is different from the adult brain. The impulse control center of the brain, the part of the brain that enables us to think ahead, consider consequences, manage urges — that’s the part of the brain right behind our forehead called the prefrontal cortex,” says Walsh. “That’s under construction during the teenage years. In fact, the wiring of that is not completed until the early 20s.”
