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North Carolina Killer: I Played GTA Before Double Murder

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A 22-year-old convicted killer claims that he played Grand Theft Auto just before murdering two housemates in 2005. James Christopher Stitt is waiting to learn whether he will be executed or face life in prison for the gruesome double slaying. Stitt told a psychiatrist that he played GTA until 4 a.m. and then committed the killings.
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sonarus - 586 days 9 hours ago
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lol the thing is when you play video games for a long time, sometimes you get a bit immersed in the game world. Not to the extent of harming another person but for a brief moment, your thoughts can sway this way or that way.

I remember after playing MGS3 snake eater for hours, anytime i went outside and i saw a squirrel i immediately had an urge to shoot it and eat it. For a second i would be stuck in that fantasy till i realized i wasn't in the game.

When i was playing GTA san andreas back in the day, i used to have urges to hop into any car i see lying on the street and just driving away with it.

But i never had any urges of killing anybody though
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Adamalicious - 586 days 8 hours ago
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Yeah - like whenever I shoot someone in real life I always run over to their body to pick up their ammo :)
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Monchichi025 - 586 days 8 hours ago
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You should seek professional help right away. LOL

Then again when I play Sonic the Hedgehog for hours straight I feel like running around and collecting rings myself!
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PR0F3TA - 586 days 8 hours ago
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thats a relief, i thought i was the only one who bought a RPG from the black market just to shoot down police helicopters
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Saint Sony - 586 days 8 hours ago
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1.4 - @ sonarus
You're obviously on the edge. Better stop playing right now.

I have played games hours and hours and hours in row, but I've never felt any "symptoms" after playing them.
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sonarus - 586 days 8 hours ago
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Lol well i like to live on the edge:D

But seriously i remember wanting to eat squirrels anytime they ran past and wanting to open the doors of random cars and just driving away with them.

I also remember the summer spider man 3 came out, i had lots of urges to just swing to class instead of just walking. sigh:(

Spidey, GTA and MGS3 are the only games i have had such urges for
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Dino - 586 days 6 hours ago
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1.6 - Back when I was a kid
When someone committed a murder the devil was their defense......now it's video games. I'm sure he had some past history of violence.what a sad world we live in these days.......P.S. if they know he committed the murder red handed. *&ck a trial. Just save us tax payers some cash and take his ass out back and shoot him with a ten cent bullet.
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superman - 586 days 9 hours ago
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I just played GTA 4 now. I dont feel like commiting murder.
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BeaArthur - 586 days 8 hours ago
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I played it for a long time last night and didn't kill anyone either. Maybe there is something wrong with us since the game apparently makes you want to kill people. I'm going to go out on a limb and say this guy was mental long before he played any GTA games.
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Drekken - 586 days 9 hours ago
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Such a lame cop out. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITIES. Take the damn responsibilities like a MAN and admit you are a sick puppy and quick blaming an interactive CARTOON. What a tool.
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himdeel - 586 days 9 hours ago
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4 - What was...
...Dahmer playing before he did all that ignorant $**t? Sounds like he could've been playing Tetris and gone on a rampage with 2X4s. As Chris Rock once said, "What ever happen to people just being crazy?" Mofos always looking for an excuse and we as a society are pushing illnesses and misdirected blame like it's the new pasttime.
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Vip3r - 586 days 8 hours ago
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*slow clap*
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mistertwoturbo - 586 days 8 hours ago
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Wow... I... Agree... An Actual decent post by Bladestar that has nothing to do with 360 being better than PS3. Congrats!
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Timesplitter14 - 586 days 8 hours ago
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yup.
No one will ever say "I played this game before doing the murder. This was the reason." by themselves just like that. It sounds way too fake.
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Tmac - 585 days 23 hours ago
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5.4 - LMFAO@Vip3r
I nominate your comment for comment of the year.
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Howlie - 585 days 18 hours ago
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I thought the same thing...his responses sounded like they came from the mouth of a lawyer
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kazuma - 586 days 8 hours ago
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i finished gta4 a couple of days and right now I WANNA KILL EVERY SINGLE N4G USER! lol @ stupid guy, get a life
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PS360WII - 586 days 8 hours ago
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It's kind of like saying 'the devil made me do it'
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Timesplitter14 - 586 days 8 hours ago
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Yeah lol. That's what I was thinking
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Fishy Fingers - 586 days 8 hours ago
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This site should not publicize this.

This is him/his lawyers trying a weak ass plea in the hopes of shifting the blame from the boy (the actual MURDERER), to GTA (a computer game) purely to try and achieve a reduced incarceration.

Very low...
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DrWan - 586 days 8 hours ago
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9 - When will people understand
That when someone is psychologically unstable, it could be a TV commercial or a movie trailer that will tip them over the edge? It's not just GTA. Psychologically healthy individual will never kill someone even after playing every single GTA out there..it's that simple.
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v1c1ous - 586 days 8 hours ago
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10 - i played burnout paradise for like 5 hours on day
and when i drove to publix i had the urge to get onto oncoming traffic...
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Azures - 586 days 8 hours ago
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Something tells me he could've been playing Barbie Horse Adventure and still taken some lives.

That would be my exact verdict as a judge lol.

edit: for those who'd get the reference, that kid looks like High Pitch Mike lol.

lets see who figures it.
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Catastrophe - 586 days 8 hours ago
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Barbie Horse Adventure would definitely make me feel the homicidal twinge.
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Robearboy - 586 days 8 hours ago
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He probably had a beer and some peanuts too, does that make them responsible?
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TheExecutive - 586 days 8 hours ago
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lol and i am sure a lot of people drink before they commit murder, but no one takes that as an excuse.

In fact, I am sure a lot of people eat food before they commit murder too...

whats this called? causal fallacy.
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BSigel81 - 586 days 8 hours ago
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14 - This is crazy
This guy make fellow North Carolinian's like me feel ashamed. He is just trying to feed off of GTA to make bail. But, it is not happening, in North Carolina he is getting the death penalty. That is how the law here always turns out most of the time.
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OOG - 586 days 8 hours ago
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PONG MADE ME DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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name - 586 days 8 hours ago
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I always feel like killing people. I've always played video games though. chicken egg kinda thing
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Drekken - 586 days 8 hours ago
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I get urges to hurt people sometimes... I turn to violent video games to RELIEVE the urge. Some people just cant own up to their stupidity and bad decision making. If you kill someone you WILL do time or worse... pretty simple. It doesnt matter what you think you can pass the blame on.
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joevfx - 586 days 7 hours ago
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18 - when the hell are they gonan let off this ...
GAMES DO NOT MAKE YOU KILL PEOPLE!!!!! stupid people kill people. i have pllayed the most violent video games made sicne i was 13. I have never had the urge to kill anyone no will i ever unless its self defense. We (the unites states) are turning into a bunch of panty wastes.
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Whoooop - 586 days 7 hours ago
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19 - yeah...
He probably drank PEPSI before too, so sue those f*kers...
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sandip787 - 586 days 7 hours ago
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nah i agree with the defendant, i remember playing snake on my phone one day, and i went outside turning at 90 degree angles trying to catch flys. i just happens sometimes.
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Fanboy Slaughter - 586 days 7 hours ago
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Looks like somebody is trying to sound the Jack Thompson-signal.

Somewhere down in florida there is a huge spotlight in the clouds with a big dollar sign that within minutes will summon Jack Thompson from the 7th ring of Hell to come forth and cut a superficial flesh wound in the gaming community that will heal within hours. And then Jack returns to hell, not having accomplished anything of worth or value, to slumber once more until the next idiot tries to use the "video games made me do it" defense.
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sak500 - 586 days 7 hours ago
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I wonder if hitler was playing monopoly when he lost his mind and thought of taking over the world.
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KidMakeshift - 586 days 7 hours ago
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23 - Phew
I thought I was the only one, lol

I'm surprised Jack Thompson didn't bust through the wall like the Kool-Aid guy when this guy said that
"Ooooh Yeahhh!"
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Supa - 586 days 6 hours ago
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News at 11: Murderer claims he's not to blame for killing people. Lawyer claims he's actually the victim of videogames that forced him to become the monster he is today. Hilary Clinton vows to protect innocent children like James Christopher Stitt from videogames with new anti-videogames law. Jack Thompson claims the death-penalty for gamers might be considered.
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bpmurr - 586 days 6 hours ago
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25 - I played GTA4 before I went to bed last night
and then I went to sleep. What's his point? Just another f'd up person looking for a way to spread the blame.
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ATLRoAcH - 586 days 5 hours ago
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26 - So...
He is a f#%king lunatic who just so happened to have played GTA. Whether you play a game or not and if you kill someone, you're insane to begin with.
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proArchy - 586 days 5 hours ago
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So what if he did?!

"Mental disorders are common in the United States and internationally. An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in four adults — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year...(in 2004)this figure translates to 57.7 million people." - NIMH's website

That's speaking just about the US. Worldwide, well (assuming just for the sake of getting through this comment that the statistic is the same worldwide), take 26.2% of an estimated 6.7 billion and you get 1.75 billion people with some form of mental disorder, not even neccessarily a violent one. 10's of Millions of people from all walks of life in all areas of the world play GTA games every day for hours on end. Logic dictates that some of these people will fall into both categories and at least one of them will be a murderer. THATS JUST (unfortunately) THE WAY IT IS. It doesn't have any direct causality with the game or the gaming. Its just a matter of overlapping popular statistics.
Seriously, this is most likely just a case of a man being scared for his life and letting his lawyers tell him to say something to brush the blame off of him, and his violent actions.
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solar - 586 days 4 hours ago
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and the blame game continues...nothing new here.
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Enigma_2099 - 585 days 23 hours ago
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29 - Funny, when I finish playing GTA IV, I shower and go to bed...
... what the hell was HIS problem?

Oh, I get it... his lawyer probably told him to say that to try and shift some of the blame on the game...
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ropelli90 - 585 days 18 hours ago
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well i have played gta too, where's the story about that?

oh, he murdered two people... why didn't I murder two people?
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WilburSmithJr - 585 days 15 hours ago
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31 - Pacman
I used to play pacman a lot was i was younger, now whenever i go to nightclubs on the weekend i walk round a darkened room, listening to repetitive music while munching on pills.
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