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Petric's mother was killed, but his father survived and was on hand to see his son's insanity plea rejected. Petric now faces a possibility of life in prison without parole, at the young age of 17.
We're sure some jerk out there will try to lay blame at the feet of the game itself, as someone always does. But Petric is clearly a disturbed young man. After committing the grisly crime, he fled the scene, taking only his copy of 'Halo 3.' The item could have been anything, a treasured baseball card, a movie. What drove Petric to kill was not desensitization, or even addiction, but obsession. And in that respect 'Tetris,' may be the most dangerous game out there. [From: AOL News]
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsjbjg24mJan 13th 2009 7:23PM
why is this game worth killing for????
roomtekJan 14th 2009 12:30AM
He pleaded for insanity...
uvrayJan 13th 2009 7:44PM
How many generations of incest did it take to produce this homunculus? This empty-eyed shell is from the dried-up, dead bug cluttered stagnant end of the gene pool.
dbc59Jan 13th 2009 7:47PM
No, O’Brien I think you've got it wrong. There is little, if any, historical documentation referencing murder or attempted murder of ones parents over baseball cards. However their are valid scientific studies that do correlate violence in the media with violent behavior.
LouisJan 13th 2009 8:02PM
People are a product of their environments
BrandonJan 13th 2009 8:06PM
How rediculous that he would try to killl his parents over a game, over anything for that matter. What did he think was going to happen? did he think after it was all done he would jump on xbox live and contiune his game as if nothing happened? Did he think his mom would respawn or something?
As a long time gamer (19years), there has never been a game worth taking this route. I can remember my mother taking away my super nintendo because i didn't keep my room clean. So after she took it away i didn't think of plots to take her out...i cleaned my room and got it back - Simple
This story is terrible for so many reasons, second reason being this 17yo kid possibly will never walk free again and his life hasn't even really started yet.
Horrible situation
AwlAmericanDawgJan 13th 2009 8:34PM
what an ass! that's f'ed up! I feel really sorry for the parents and the mom that died... That's horrible trying to kill people who brought you into this world.
Oh and @ Brandon, I'm sorry but I couldn't help myself but to laugh at the "Did he think his mom would respawn?"
brianJan 13th 2009 8:54PM
this is old news!
MobyJan 13th 2009 9:38PM
Just another glitch in the coming horrific crimes to continue to happen. We have no hold on crime no more than we have a hold on anything else in this so called great FREE nation where anything goes and what does go isnt worth wasting gun powder over. Its gotten to be a sick, deranged society of people out there today. No end in sight.
DanielJan 14th 2009 12:25AM
This kid is an a**hole. That's why kids don't need game systems. Go back to freakin Super Nintendo.
djroxyJan 14th 2009 12:36AM
They should beat him to death with his video game system.
AWWangJan 14th 2009 2:46AM
The kids these days, I believe is tougher than ever and also have more mental problems than Kids in the early 20th Century... Tech, games and tv should all be cut from 12:01 AM-5:01AM so no kid can use games that is social... Pireod...
paulfflesJan 20th 2009 8:04PM
dj roxy has it right.
whats are people coming to?