Teenager killed mother, shot father because they took Halo 3 away

Daniel Petric was so angry that his father would not allow him to play the violent video game Halo 3 that he killed his mother and shot his father, then tried to make it appear to be a murder-suicide, prosecutors told a Lorain County judge this morning in the boy's murder trial.

[So Easy I Can Do It]

it's power of green!

[WANNA GET HIGH]

Are u sue that is not power of green.This might explain why we have not seen him around in a while... XD

[WANNA GET HIGH]

Are u sure that pic is not power of green.This might explain why we have not seen him around in a while... XD

R.I.P TO THE MUM.

[thebudgetgamer]

this kid has a history of behavior like this

:(

[Blink_44]

he most likely does since his parents didnt want him to play violent games.

[Panthers]

He probably kills cats for fun...

[bushfan]

...he is insane!.
C'mon it's a game, just a game. there is more than that in the world!

[Sarcasm]

"If tomorrow I tell the press that, like, a gang banger, will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all part of the plan. But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds!" - The Joker

[badz149]

and none disagreed even PoG himself! is that really PoG?! @budgetgamer, he should only had 1 mom he just killed her! but seriously, this guy is crazy/insane! he didn't only wiped his parents, he tried to make it as a suicide-murder situation! crazy crazy kid! RIP to the mom and may this guy die a terrible death! he's not just a disgrace to gamers, he's the disgrace of humanity!

[dantesparda]

I dont understand what the shock is about, its that good (the game), lol! No but seriously, poor parents and fvcked up kid, but he will probably suffer throughout time for this (his conscience will get him)

[PS3 Blu-Ray NOT dead]

So in the entire year of 2008 one person was killed in relation to video games.

FACT - on average 16,800 murders are committed each year in the US.

This will be all over CNN and the news channels of course. 1 murder out of 16,800 (0.0001%) is related to video games and the press goes crazy!

How many are related to alcohol? A huge percentage but you don't see reports on CNN titled "Alcohol Violence" where they talk about how all alcohol should be banned and local wine shops should be shut down. Instead there's stuff on CNN like "Video Game causes teen to murder parents" and the host and guests talk about how video games are ruining the minds of kids/teen and the makers and distributors should be punished.

The kid was obviously psycho and would killed his parents if they took away anything he deeply cherished. But because it was a "violent" video game Bungie is to blame for his actions! Bungie brain washed him into thinking killing was right and to blame it on a murder-suicide!

The kid got the motivation from the Halo 3 level "Rats Nest" where you kill Sergeant Johnson and Commander Keyes and Cortana orders you to make it look like a murder-suicide to fool 343 Guilty Spark.

/end rant

[Wenis]

lolwut

[PopEmUp]

@ above damn he sure look like POG, and come to think of it, POG disappearance of N4G have let me think twice and putting that this guy might be him

[BattleAxe]

This kid has got to be mentally ill to shoot his family over such a stupid game.

[DarKnight1]

Wow couldnt even kill at point blank range. Seriously though things have escalated from that little kid punching his mum in the face to shooting her in the face. Whatever happened to the death penalty? all those hippies and lefties thought all ppl were good, well not even a pastors son is good. Morons like this kid ruin it for all us gamers.

Good thing he never played COD WAW, to me these "violent games" remind me how i dont want to kill ppl.

[The Killer]

why his father have a gun in the first place???

i think thats the problem and that he is psycho!!

[CommonSense]

i didn't know in halo 3 they show you how to kill 2 people and stage it like a murder suicide. pretty sure we get ideas like that from movies books, and TV. halo shows you (completely unrealistically) how to shoot wave after wave of aliens while your health rapidly regenerates.

[bpac123456789]

They give video games a bad name. Obviously there where other problems than just the fact that the boy wasn't alowed to play his halo game. Nobody who is in any way mentally competent would shoot there mom and father in the head over a game(over anything for that matter). I would like to know what lead up to the killings other than the fact that he had severe spinal damage.

-but regardless of why he did it, he's nothing but evil.

[TheCagyDies]

"Also on Monday, a tearful Mark Petric testified that his son came up behind him as he sat on the couch and said, "Would you guys close your eyes? I have a surprise for you."
Petric, 45, said he "expected a pleasant surprise" and closed his eyes. Then his head went numb. As the blood poured from a bullet wound in his head, he realized his wife, Susan Petric, 43, was lying dead on a nearby loveseat, shot in the head, arms and chest.
Petric said his son shoved the gun into his hand saying, "Hey Dad, here's your gun. Take it.""

That is scary as hell...

[Nathan Drake]

" "Would you guys close your eyes,"Daniel Petric asked."I have a surprise for you."Mark Petric said he expected a pleasant surprise.The next thing he knew,his head went numb.He had been shot in the head."

Wow

[Hershy999]

to get shot in the head and live?

[Sarcasm]

"Is it possible
to get shot in the head and live? "

Yes, it's possible. There was a guy who got shot on one side of his head and survived. But of course he only had half of his brain left, but he still manages to do normal things everyday. Of course they had to do plastic surgery to cover up the missing part of his head. Tragic stuff.

But yes, it's possible.

[badz149]

but you sure need some sort of miracle for that to happen! there were some cases people living with bullet buried in their heads.

[PS3 Blu-Ray NOT dead]

There's this 100% true story of a lady who somehow fell on a pencil and it went through her ear and into her brain! She forgot it happened and didn't notice the pencil until someone told her!

It's as if her memory was erased :D

I don't know how that happens but it's 100% true! I saw it on the news.

[SnprSlick]

I almost gagged when I read the old lady story.

One of my worst fears is to get in a car crash while picking my nose/ear.

[GhostFaceGamer]

yes it is possible...

Max Payne survived a bullet in the head...

[TheZippo]

@2.6

You do know that Max Payne isn't real right?

@2.0
And yes it's possible to survive a bullet to the head. There was a man on my street that shot himself in the head and survived. It caused him to go blind but he survived.

[jadenkorri]

my mother works at the hosipital, and she took care of this man who was suicidal, he had actually shot himself in the head, woke up a couple hours later, and actually shot himself again, the 2nd shot was reported to 911, at which time he was discovered still breathing, rushed to the hosipital and 6 something hours of surgury later, the man survived and woke up....what was freaking amazing, no lasting phsyical damages, meaning paralyzed or no use of limbs and his memory was fully intact, other than some physical therapy, probably some mental too, the man walked again..

@2.7
apparently max payne is real, according to the disagrees

[mfwahwah]

@2.7

You know he wasn't being serious, right?

And there are TONS of people who survive shots to the head. Failed suicides mostly. Also, there was a kid who got shot point blank in the ear. Went in and he got all loopy. His parents thought he was on drugs, since his friends dropped him off at home after he was at a party. Doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong at first since they were thinking it was drugs. They finally noticed a bit of blood coming from his ear.

[bpac123456789]

2pac was shot in the head and he lived. infact he was shot five times the first time. of course the second time in which he was shot several times in the chest, killed him. so yah it's possible to live through a head shot and still be mentally efficient.

[cowmanconor]

i heard of someone who shot himself in the head with a shotgun and lived it was a suicide attempetd but he changed his mind after he pulled the trigger

[KeiKei]

What is wrong with the people these days?

[Rofflecopter]

the fanboy inside of kids takes them over...

message from George W.: buy your children all 3 systems in order to avoid being shot.

[Benjamin09]

Whats wrong with people these days? Why do people refer to it like there is violence was invented within the last 5 years.

Something is wrong with this kid but this is not the first or last time a child has lashed out at his parents. Remember Lizzy Borden? Hacked her dad to pieces on the couch....I doubt it had to do with Halo 3.

We just have faster ways about hearing it today, network cable news and internet.

[mfwahwah]

@3.2

Exactly.

And if you think this is all that bad, then you should look into this thing called the "Holocaust." Something was truly wrong with those people.

[White-Sharingan]

kids/teens these days wtf!!

:\ wonder how itll be in 20 years

"baby kills parent with his dog because they took barbie's dreamhouse away"

[Heldrasil]

"baby kills parent with his dog because they took barbie's dreamhouse away"

I'd kill my parents too if I was a boy with a Barbie house.

[White-Sharingan]

;P so true

[George Sears]

What a pathetic kid.

[Nicaragua17]

This b*tch should get the chair.

[KLEPTOMANIAC]

but i bet he frickin kicks a$$ at halo

[Yoma]

How I see which kind of people buying the 360.. LOL

[na2ru1]

deathrow?

[Iraq Resistance ROM]

he will be executed, beheaded with a sword. thats the only solution for these kind of crimes.

do u think serial killers and parent killers will do their crime if they know they will be beheaded?? the answer NO!!

[Meus Renaissance]

He should be shot in the head himself. The sad thing he's playing the sympathy card. He is pure evil

[Ghoul]

Welcome to america, a country where sex is more evil then daily violence and the possesion of guns

[Tsalagi]

Guns don't kill people retards who should have been euthanized at birth do.

[Ghoul]

you are abolutly right, but if you cant get to a gun you gotta use a knive and THAT my friend is something completly different as you gotta activly kill someone instead off pulling a trigger.

[Proxy]

the nation of generalizations.

[Tsalagi]

There's nothing glorified with killing someone with a knife. Walk up, stab in stomach, femoral artery, or carotid artery and its game over just as easily as pulling the trigger on a gun. If someone wants to kill another person then they're going to find a way. Just screaming it's because of the gun/presence there of isn't right though.

[bednet]

The kid should not have known the safe code in the first place. If you're going to own a gun, you need to be responsible and store it in a safe place...inaccessible to your unstable, neurotic son.

Edit: And I have to agree that stabbing someone is different as you actually have to get your hands dirty.

[SuperM]

Oh dont come with the stupid guns dont kill people bullsh1t. Thats like giving a nuke to a terrorist and then saying nukes dont kill people, terrorists do.

[bednet]

I didn't say "guns don't kill people", but if your ever going to believe that people will give their guns away someday, you're dreaming, guns exist, they're everywhere and that's something that we all have to live with. I'm pretty sure the kid would not have killed his mother had there not been a gun or if that gun had at the very least been locked safely.

[The BS Police]

People get shot by people... people with guns.

[Tsalagi]

If that picture doesn't scream "mouth breather" i don't know what does.

[fan_of_gaming]

what is the whole deal with mouth breathing? i see people make fun of people by saying "he must be a mouth breather" or something to that extent, and i don't get it. I'm primarily a mouth breather because i have a deviated septum, but i'm not a nerd or loser or something because of it. I know you probably didn't intend your comment in an offensive or mean way or anything but i don't really get what the issue with it is.

[Tsalagi]

Its slang for a very dumb person.

http://www.urbandictionary....

[fan_of_gaming]

thanks for the clarification.

[primordialmeme]

He's from Bully. He lives. Does this mean there will be no sequel?

[Pebz]

Actually, mouth-breathing is very much "medical".

Breathing (in) through the mouth has several severe drawbacks, such as the oxygen not being heated before it reaches the lungs and there being no "filter" for unwanted substances. Unlike when breathing in through the nose, which both warms the oxygen and acts as a rather effective filter due to nostril hairs and whatnot. Mouth-breathing is a major cause of disease.

"Civilized" man also happens to be like the only animal that regularly breathes in through the mouth, go figure.

[TIKUP]

Im 15 and i play any ages games even 18s but do i start going into spaz mode when i see voilent things in the game?? No and all bloody teens should learn that, a videogame is nothing to kill over, its just a game, they need to get that into there heads!!

Also if he was going to kill over a game atleast do it over a good one!!
JOKING!!

[NegativeCreep427]

Well what else can be said besides that the stupidity and mindlessness of the Xbot community knows no bounds!!!

That was all pre-meditated murder. That f'n kid planned on framing his father for the death of his mother. This is murder in the first-degree. That freak needs to get the f'n chair for this.

[Timesplitter14]

Typical Xbox Live kid

[Game13a13y]

Note to self:
buy my son a PS 3 instead of RROD360
buy my son a PS 3 instead of RROD360
buy my son a PS 3 instead of RROD360
buy my son a PS 3 instead of RROD360
buy my son a PS 3 instead of RROD360

[Cheeseknight28]

If you're worried about your child shooting you because you took his game away, then maybe you have bigger problems than what system to buy your son.

[ChickeyCantor]

Game13,
Here is another note, don't have kids with such childish fan boy behavior. Open their world, don't push it into your own vision.

@timesplitters,
Right, the fact that you could say such things while a person had to die because of a GAME. Shove that fanboy crap up your ass.

@cheeseknight,
Have a freaking bubble.

[rucky]

Russell Peters "White people, please beat your kids."

[badz149]

and it was funny!

[Sergeant Osiris]

nutjobs like videogames too

[Dpa]

'He said Susan Petric and their son had a very close relationship.

"He was always her little boy," Mark Petric told the judge.'

Baby a kid too much and this is what happens.

[cayal]

I think it has neither to do with over-bearing parents or parents who were never there (as some people like to use that excuse as well).

There is simply something medically wrong with this kid. He should be put in jail and punished, but he has something wrong with him.

[farhsa2008]

wow games are supposed to bring fun and enjoyment into peoples lives not death!

[geda]

he looks like a wacko anyway. and maybe it's just me, but Halo isn't THAT violent.

[Blink_44]

Id have to agree with halo not being very violent.

[Ghoul]

it's not about halo beeing violent, its a bout a kid killing his parents because they forbid him to play a game.

[mariusmal]

if he done this because of halo... then imagine if he was playing gta 4... genocide alert.

and yes halo isnt very violent.

rip mom and dad.

[metalhead]

This is exactly why games get so much controversy because of wackjobs like this. I feel bad for what happened but this guy was insane.

[cyclindk]

Not one to judge based on appearances, but the kid even looks disturbed, even a bit deranged.

[TheColbertinator]

I hope that family pulls through after this ordeal

[Narutone66]

he forgave his son saying "You're my son, you're my boy".

[gamfreak]

got no family value anymore, what's more mom and dad is dead, he should go to HELL....!!!!!

[BLuKhaos]

The father is not dead.

[gamfreak]

Long live to the father..... He he.

[Kevin McCallister]

I used Halo 3 to learn how to destroy these two burglars that kept breaking into my house every night at 9:00pm. Excellent combat simulator.

[jimsondanet]

id say that to have that kind of hatred, it would have began alot earlier than his homicidal temper could erupt
to much disciplin or not enough?

[LokMessier]

I feel bad for the mother and father who were simply trying to discipline their child and ended up losing their lives. I mean the kid could have just done what I did whenever I wasn't allowed to play video games, simply cooperate with the parental figures until given the game, sometimes the parents even buy you another one. *Sighs* sometimes I wonder what some gamers are doing nowadays seems as if they are so strung up on the games that they are losing touch with reality.

And dammit wouldn't you know it's in my state, sometimes I really dislike my state, it seems something always goes down in Ohio :/

[Darkseider]

I hope that the sister, father and immediate family can recover from this tragedy. The kid on the other hand should be sentenced to death as it was a premeditated murder. No one just goes "oops I just shot them and now let me make it look like a suicide". It's a pity that he is using a video game as an excuse. He is 17, 16 at the time, and knew what he was doing and should suffer the same consequence as any other criminal being charged with murder one. This is a long brewing hatred that just needed an excuse to get out.

[Blink_44]

I agree. hopefully he doesnt pull the "im a confused kid, put me in a mental institute" deal.

[Narutone66]

the media can't blame this on Halo 3 or video games. As stated in the story, the teenager haven't started playing the game yet. It had more to do with his state of mind. I am against minor playing violent video games as they are not mature enough to distinguish what is right or wrong in what they play. Sometimes the media tends to sensationalize the news and blow it out of proportion.

[LokMessier]

Yes I agree 100% the media will see the game, state the name on television, and then show a few clippings of what kids are exposed to. They will then try to spin it all upon the gaming industry just as well. Though I somewhat agree and somewhat disagree with the minor's playing violent things, some minors can grow up to be just fine, but they would have to be monitored properly; but overall in the end I agree 100% they should not be allowed to play anything with 'Gore' on the back.

I'm starting to wonder if perhaps the ESRB is going to be changed because of all of this, of course those who are under a certain age of perhaps 16 or so will be outraged not being able to play certain games they once were able to. Sometimes though it seems true that one person is able to ruin something for the rest.

[cayal]

I agree. I am a PS3 fan as well (though I like the 360 and have one) but naming the game is just going to put a spin on it that it really doesn't need.

[Blink_44]

He said the next thing he remembers is his son shoving the gun in his hand and saying, "Hey Dad, here's your gun. Take it."
---------
Wow.

[AstroZombie1]

I'm not goning crack a joke because put simply it's very sad to hear such a tragedy to happen because of a game.

[Reibooi]

The kid looks like a crazy murderer but that aside there is no excuse for this. He was a teenager dammit he damn well knows what he did was wrong and that you DONT SHOOT AT OR KILL PEOPLE it's that simple. Not to mention I doubt anything he said to his father after the fact is true because if he killed his mother in cold blood like that and then tried to make it out to be a murder suicide he obviously had it planned out.

[VforVideogames]

"THE VIOLENT HALO 3" are you for reals?!?!?!?!? the violent halo 3 LOL LOL LOL LOL

[mastiffchild]

You have to feel for all concerned here-even tnhe kid himself. If he was "born evil" he can hardly be held accountable though having NO concept of good behaviour-no, it's more than likely he was ADHD/Anger issues/got too pumped when played testosterone boosting games that led to all this in the first place. The ludicrous availability of guns in a supposedly grown up culture like America also facilitated this tragedy-even if he'd had to use a knife the chances of fatalities would be way lower and the visceral act of slicing someones flesh is far removed from the remoteness of pulling a trigger.
So US media may well blame Halo for the guy becoming violent but the fact thre were guns available means we don't really know if he was-any person with anger or mental health issues could pull a trigger and feel distanced from both the gore and violence.This was more about power than any game inparticular and the fact the kid found a power higher than his parents close to hand because of slack gun laws.
And why wasn't he being correctly medicated if he was so psycho in any case?
There's loads about this story at practically any decent news site but, tbh, much of it's contradictory as some outlets want to blame guns/some parents/some mental health facilities and some obviously want to blame Halo.Can I blame Charlton Heston please? Seems like the actual guns that he and his lot so love actually did the real damage here.

[Amnesiac]

"The ludicrous availability of guns in a supposedly grown up culture like America "

I bet you couldn't even name the federal requirements for gun ownership in America without looking it up.

Please don't try to blame this on the 2nd Amendment, you sound stupid.

Oh, and ADHD? LOL please.

[Gaara_724]

a game of halo cant make u like this i think dead space will probs do it to you but not halo this story if just a joke realy

[Enigma_2099]

... and be done with it!!!

[Bobic]

Shooting people is what got everyone in to this mess anyway. Your solution seems a bit shortsighted.

[Enigma_2099]

it's not meant to change the world, it's meant as a PUNISHMENT.

Or are you always this sympathetic to killers?

[DarkSniper]

This is exactly the prototypical behavior of the typical Microslave. One who's life is embedded inside the videogame console and nothing else. Just by looking at the teenager, it's easy to assume that he is one of those who does nothing but spew out racial slurs and a constant nuisance to the Xbox Live community. Which is why Dark Sniper is not a part of such drivel.

Xbox 360 owners need to wake up and realize that there is live b3yond the console. This can be blamed on this teenage child not having mature peer to peer guidance with his online community. Thankfully there's several role models willing to teach him ethical behavior on the other platform.

For his heinous crimes, Dark Sniper truthfully suggests the Death Penalty in the most sadistic way. Daniel Petric is lucky that Dark Sniper is not in control of the court system where he's at. Dark Sniper would get thrills of ridding another Microslave off this earth.

$niper

[Arsenic13]

And your here talking trash about a video game console. Your honestloy trying to swing this into a console debate. Someone died, u need to get a grip on what important in life.

[caffman]

stopped taking the tablets then? You don't seem to realise that this sort of thing isn't about consoles, its about lives. And you get as many crazies that use PSN as XBL. Its just on XBL everyone has a mic

[Marquis_de_Sade]

In that comment you have 2 very much unwanted human traits (and more, but that's purely my opinion)

Hypocrisy

Ignorance

Also a dose of irony.

What I find disturbing is people actually agreeing with him, this ventures outside the realms of pathetic fanboy bickering and into the much more serious issue of life and death. Grow up, even if it's only for a day, or even just the comments you post in article.

By the way, YouNoob, is that neccessary?

[reelife]

You are speaking to yourself like you are some kind of f*cking president, or that you are an advicor to a president or even a lawyer deffending his client. Your comment is great but think less of yourself, it looks retarded.

[Shane Kim]

Have to agree with Dark Sniper, but I would go further and sentenced that guy to death penalty for owning a xbox.

[OhMyGandhi]

after reading the article, I nearly cried myself.
That's so messed up.
They look like decent freaking people trying to do better for their son and he takes it as a personal attack.
That makes me sick.
Someone said here in the comments that he probably had some mental crap, and in reality, he probably did.
There is so much I feel like saying right now, but to some it up:
red: 1 blue:0

[bviperz]

Unfortunately for fans, thanks to the media, video games will be thrown on the fire again. Most unfortunate of all, a family is without their mother because an idiot kid chose playing a game over having a mother.

[Lord Xire]

"double kill" echoes through the N4G boards.

[CryofSilence]

What a douche. Deserves life in prison without videogames. And without parole.

[Gambit07]

...and every other bad things he did in his life don't matter, because Halo is the sole reason behind his evil ways!

[pshizle]

a true next generation console

but really

this is so sad...

[MiztaToungueTwista]

boom head shot?
oh and it looks like hes on a .. KILLING SPREE

[Nogames08_09_360RROD]

So let me get this straight. PP killed his mother, then shot his father because they took Gaylo 3 away?

[gamfreak]

leave pp alone, although he never use his brain most of the time, but when comes to killing, he is coward. It has nothing to do with him...... well i'm not so sure is it him or not. Sigh (Doubt)

[Radiodread]

Dark Snipa, you really do need to stop living in the game world and open your robot eyes for once. This is someone's family your talking about. "Dark Snipa would get thrills of ridding another Microslave off this earth." - that right there is a psychotic talking, I seriously think if someone took your ps3 away you would shoot them dead. Go see a therapist.

[rockchalk0058]

I agree with you Narutone66. The media does tend to over exaggerate some games and on how violent these games are. But we have all heard that 10-13 year old kid playing these violent games like Gears Of War 2 and Halo 3. Basically it comes down to the parents buying these games for their kids. Weather they know what the game is and what it has in it. I have 2 kids and I don't play any of my games in front of my kids. If my son turns into a gamer like I am. Until I think he's mature enough to handle what these games has he's not going to get it. Its sad that this one kid went this far and your all right. He needs to be tried like an adult. I'm not saying send him to the chair but he did kill his mother.

[gamfreak]

Daniel Petric dude seriously does not have a life, kill mom and shot dad for a F*CKING game made by a crap company, WTF is he thinking is beyond me.

Chair!! chair!!! chair!!!! chair!!!!! chair!!!!!!

[silverchode]

good thing they didnt take gears of war away
http://www.shadowlandtoys.c...

[iClutch]

Did he get a double kill?

[firebat]

tru gamer
no but that sux thats why i beat my kids jk

[Amnesiac]

Well, the only positive thing about this is that the kid will now get to rot in a concrete box for the rest of his miserable life. Where he belongs.

Sucks the mom had to die for it.

[Amnesiac]

"Daniel Petric's lawyers also gave a short opening statement to the judge. They said their client had been under great stress because of a snowboarding accident that resulted in a severe staph infection."

LOL

WOW, lawyers make me sick, "Yeah, the staph infection totally drove him to pre-meditated murder"

[poeo]

must be a very disturbed person..

he would have snapped sooner or later over something, doesn't matter if he was into videogames or not.. i think

[NaiNaiNai]

i swear if someone trys to blame this on games they are blind, that is total bad parenting.
-nai-
(may the mother rest in peace)

[Amnesiac]

bad parenting?

Granted the kid shouldn't have been able to get the gun out of his dad's lockbox, this is a case of a kid with A LOT of problems.

My mom and dad did much worse to me than take away a video game when I was punished, and it never even crossed my mind to harm them, much less MURDER them.

Cases like this make me wish that they would bring back the firing squad, I'd sign up to shoot this little bastard. But, instead, he'll sit in prison for 50 years living off tax money.

[NaiNaiNai]

tell me how is this not bad parenting, the kid shot the parents, tell me how is that not bad parenting, A. he should have know better not to let his temper go. B. if there was any past experience with his anger something should have been done, medication, treatment, ext. C. the access to the gun safe is more then likley not the only thing wrong there. D. if he shot them over a video game, his parents did not teach him any kind of morals.

tell me again how this has nothing to do with the parents screwing up.
-nai-

[Bobic]

I agree that is it slightly bad parenting (like leaving the gun out, I guess) , but there seems to be a serious psychological problem in him. The weird thing is, Halo 3 is actually one of the least violent M rated games I have ever played. In multiplayer,I don't think that I have ever seen any blood (well not substantial amounts anyway). Even if he played manhunt, violence is alarming in someone half his age, I wonder if there were any warning signs?

[T-Baggins]

Hope he rots in jail and gits a$$ raped by a guy named biggins.

What a dip sh!t, if your going to shoot someone (no offense to his parents who were trying to teach the moron a well deserved lesson) at least do it over a good game.

[Rhoic]

Those poor innocent parents.. *sigh*. And that bastard of a kid. He deserves what ever cruel punishment he gets.

I could care less if the boy had mental issues.. if they were up to the point of murder, they needed to get him help. But instead, they probably just ignored it and thought it was puberty. I really hate this kid with a passion.

[Timesplitter14]

It's clear he was mentally destabilized, but maybe his parents shouldn't have controlled him so much (confiscating his games when he's 16 was pretty exaggerated imo)

Maybe that's why he became insane over the years. I dunno but every time I hear about these stories, the parents always seem over-protective. Or... maybe they confiscated the game because they knew he had a violent nature and he was insane. Who knows... that would explain a lot of things.

But hey don't think I'm blaming it on the parents. That kid is serioulsy an a-hole

EDIT : I just found out the father was a pastor. I guess that<s why he confiscated the game

[Bishop]

Really, the game is why he killed them? Thier is probably some deep social problems that exsist within the dark areas of this killers mind, killer being the word to focus on here. Blaming a game is a good defense but really are you such a lemming that you do whatever a game tells you? No, this is not a gamer that killed for a game, this is a killer who killed because he wanted to, much like Jim Miller, who killed his grandparents at a young age (long before games). Dahmer, John Wayne on and on, they all have an excuse for why they killed but as a long respected psychiatrist said "if they know to eat with a fork or how wipe there backside then they know killing is wrong". This killer was certain of what he was doing and should be held accountable for his actions. People are responsible not games.

[stealthy-guy]

this is sad news, please everyone don't blame the XBOTS when a person is sick in their head they could do stupid SH1T.

[moja]

I once kicked a wench for not making dinner after playing Cooking Mama.

[genkis300]

this kid got problem not because of halo

[mrdxpr2]

life it doesnt matter what he went thru killing your mom has no excuse he should get life in adult jail...

[LukaX23]

WHAT THE F*CK GOES THROUGH PEOPLES MINDS WHEN A FREAKING VIDEO GAME IS TAKEN AWAY? I MEAN REALLY! WTF PEOPLE?!!!!!!!

[jackalman]

hey close your eyes i got a surprise for you. BANG!!!!! are you kidding me?????

[SprayandPreycom]

while hes in his cell for the next 25-life years they should give him a 360 controller and let him stare at the wall so he can know what it feels like to be a 360 owner who just got rrod and has returned there console to microsoft... life then hell...

[violentbydezign]

A HARDCORE GAMER obviously this dude has a few loose nuts and bolts. Seriously though I would beat this kid to a pulp daily this is a product of bad parenting he's probably a spoil little brat who just needed his block knock off a few time if you ask me.

We as GamerParent need to instill the fear of GOD in our children make them think twice before they even think of raising that hand that nutured them since birth.

R.I.P to the MOM

[OSIRUSSS]

Parents were doing the kid a favor.

[MasterBlaster]

An M rating is pushing it for Halo 3. If you ask me the game should be rated T. Having Halo 3 rated the same as Dead Space and Bloodshot doesn't make much sense. This person was messed up and video games had nothing at all to do with it. If it wasn't his parents taking away Halo it would have been something else that set him off one day.

[Neo604]

too much profanity exposure

[miamikid]

I would kill her to! NOBODY TAKES HALO AWAAAYY FORM ME's *Drools and puts finger in nose* This kid is a retard to say the least

[JohnnyBadfinger]

This kid is a f***en lunatic. i hope that when he is in prison and the big fat hairy biker comes up behind him (to service his own sexual desires) in the showers that he thinks of his parents and how much he deserves what hes getting, because he will be in a place he deserves too be. And that kinda stuff never happens here in australia which proves americans are lunatics. But the police here do shoot 15 year old kids, maybe thats what you need in the US, some to kick you back in line. and proper understanding of the use and safety of a firearm,cause clearly you fellas can't be trusted with firearms.

[Kwertie]

If I was his father, I'd kill that fcuker ASAP. Son or not, if he killed his mother and tried to kill his father over a damn game, well he is one bad egg and doesn't deserve to live.

[xg-ei8ht]

I couldn't careless about the disagrees i get here, bring it.

I hope this prick goes to prison, gets a$$ Fuked by a fatguy called buba. Then gets hanged up by his balls, and only then has halo3 stapled to his head.

Then give him the chair.

It's a fact, just like movies, they do breed violence in certain people. Not everyone, but alot of kids.

The only irony is that after the chair, he'll be playing beyond.

R.I.P To the mother.

[ChickeyCantor]

Well he doesn't look like if he even knows what he actually did...
Moron.

[samura]

Call me cynical, but I think he would not simply kill his parents for a game. I think its the result of accumulated hate for various reasons.

I would not be surprised if his parents used to beat him or molest him.
Judge over all of the facts.

Then again, maybe he is insane.

[Batzi]

He needs help!

[MaximusPrime]

yep, MS is a problem. Ban all violent games.

But nooo, they gets money from violent games. greedy..

[reelife]

CHAIR!!! CHAIR!!! CHAIR!!! CHAIR!!! CHAIR!!! CHAIR!!!

[fmjpower]

hope they have a death penalty....maybe thy will let him play a little halo before the lethal injection.

[Citizen Cook]

Show SOME decency...

[InMyOpinion]

Are you surprised that this thread is full of PS3 fanboys? I'm not.

[Shane Kim]

Hahaha look at these two morons. I would hang you two f'ckers by the neck as well. Don't f*cking act like if this was some parents getting killed by their son playing R2, that all you xfags wouldn't be here dancing around. F*ck both of you hippocrates.

[Oztheboss]

I bet he didn't own a PS3!

Oh no I didn't.

[moodymofo]

im sure being a 16 year old kid of a minister was hard they probably moniterd what he watched on tv told him what to eat and wear and was probably only aloud to play games like viva pinata and lego star wars while his friends at school are saying " man you got to get halo3 its so tight". im sure the guy just snapped i mean the guy can own and drive a vehicle but buy the esrb rating system he cant play halo. maybe his parents could have taken an intrest in there sons activites and maybe played with him they just may have had some fun to

[Bobic]

Lol, I have to sit and watch all my friends get wack games (I don't even have a console) and play them, and I didn't MURDER MY PARENTS.

[YouNoob]

that name says it all. originates from Croatia. when will finally some make a parking space out of the whole Balkan? C'mon USA, do it!

[kesvalk]

this guy is a moron, if it wasn't for his mother and father, he would never have played HALO 3 to begin with...

it's really pitiful, his mother carried him insider her for 9 months only to be killed because of a bunch of digital data stored on a compact disk media...

and on top of that, it was the worst game of the series...

lame...

[oldsnayke]

That kid looks quite disturbed. For shame.

[borgome]

So does the one in your avatar.

[jrsenkbe]

the parents actually did the right thing and its still looked negatively upon games, go figure. When are people going to realize, its not movies, books, games, etc that cause others to do things, it just the fact that we live in a depressing world were there are a lot of unhappy people.

[MaximusPrime]

more and more news are related to xbox 360.
I blame it on xbox 360's vast number of shoot-'em-up games
Hardly surprising.

PS3 related are minimal why? PS3 has many different type of games, a few of them are violent.

Wii related news are very very rare. Why? most of it games are family friendly.

[pete2711]

Sounds like a bit of Chopper Read,

(In australian accent)
KID: 'Dad can i play halo?'
DAD: 'No'
KID: 'Right, Time to get assertive......'
(KID pulls 4 10 shotgun out his pants and blasts mom')
KID: 'Now look whotcha gona an done..........Moms upset'
DAD: 'Wotcha doing mate?'
KID: 'Now you got till the count of 10 to produce halo, Or i shoot you where you sit'
KID: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 (BANG!!!!!!)
(Kid runs upstairs to get halo)

[atomdooze]

Dosent really matter why he did it he needs to be removed from this world.

[Dandiego]

Come on guys this is N4G you guys don't roll like that. Here's what I should be hearing:

He should have been playing Little Big Planet... He's such a Xbox fanboy.

[pete2711]

Ye....Because you hear that all the time???

[rawd]

USA!USA!USA!USA!

[il-mouzer]

"His father forbade the games, saying that were too violent and sexually explicit."

Halo Games? I think the father was too harsh there, then again if his son had enough guts to do such a thing I doubt if he was mentally stable.

[Bobic]

Well his Dad was a pastor, and I can see why he would think it was violent, but there is not one instance of anything sexually explicit in Halo 3 (besides the easter egg quotes from female marines)

[borgome]

Lock this freak, loser, piece of garbage up for the rest of his life.

[Magic_The_Celt]

well done microsoft

[Marquis_de_Sade]

I'm speechless. Tosser.

[BUKKAKALYPSE]

hopefully you're next you waste of life

[Magic_The_Celt]

^^ oh please

what im saying is the truth isnt it? of course theres sarcasm

well done microsoft, you made a game SO addicting it caused a boy to shoot both his parents

same as COD4 has made kids run away and hang themselves

you think microsoft dont love the fact they can make games that do things like that? not kill people but make people want them so bad they would kill.

[BUKKAKALYPSE]

that Halo 3 was the #1 root cause of this incident?? give me a break..not being able to play the game was probably the straw that broke the camels back but even a droid like you can realize that there must be just a FEW other issues going on with this kid.

and yes Halo 3 is very addicting. it's a shame you're no good at it

[Magic_The_Celt]

^^ Yeah i know dude but christ calling me out on it like its not just a random internet comment by a guy you couldnt care less about

oh wait..

And LMFAO good at? whats to be good at, theres no skill its random idiots jumping about t-bagging each other

Sorry dude, i think its fun, i respect the amount of work that went into it and how big of a launch it was but its basicly flipping power rangers

Seriously thats why real hardcore gamers flock to the superior multiplayer experience COD4/WaW

and you know im right.

[BUKKAKALYPSE]

you pwn yourself everytime you post and thats why you get called out.

" whats to be good at, theres no skill its random idiots jumping about t-bagging each other" - if you played it with anyone who is any good then you'd know that this isn't the case

"Seriously thats why real hardcore gamers flock to the superior multiplayer experience COD4/WaW" -- you are so as$ backwards its unreal. COD4 is the game that takes no skill and thats why you play it. you sit in a corner and camp the whole time. My 12 year old step brother absolutely dominates at COD4 every game and he is so noob at shooters its crazy. I would flat out 25-0 you in Halo 3 and you would not do nearly the same to me in COD4 (if not get dominated in that as well). COD as a franchise is widely known to very noob friendly and thats the main reason you choose that over Halo, CS or any other skill based shooter. Are there tournaments for hundreds of thousands of dollars for games that take no skill? no.are there tournaments for hundreds of thousands of dollars for COD4 or WaW? no. coincindence??? i think not. you're such a tool. you make crazy claims about games you dont ever play.

and what i really find funny is how hardcore you take this N4G fanboy sh1t..you even have "PS3 & 360 gamer" as your XBL motto just to look unbiased as if people actually care. you sir are whats wrong with this site, the gaming community in general and i'll even go as far as to say this world today.

[lizard81288]

well, at least he didn't play the game, and then kill his parents, then he could say "the game told me too" and maybe they should have not kept the gun, with his game. when i got grounded back in the day i would get mad, but nothing to kill my parents over. he must have not been that sneaky if his parents caught him.
why would he do that anyway!? he already took the game back? now he won't be able to play halo 3, until halo 5 comes out >:)
(i hope thats when he'd get released or never)
and if i was the dad, well, i wouldn't be that forgiving. killing my loved one, and leaving me with serious brain injuries(i'd assume)
although then again, i wouldn't punish my child for buying a game either, since i buy them myself, but thats just how i would raise my kid(s)

[xXSilentXx]

go USA, go USA

[JeffGUNZ]

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Oh dont come with the stupid guns dont kill people bullsh1t. Thats like giving a nuke to a terrorist and then saying nukes dont kill people, terrorists do.

...I work in law enforcement, I have never seen a GUN by itself, shoot and kill someone. Guns don't kill people, irresponsibility with firearms, kills people. You're example is a little to out there to compare. Guns are for protection or hunting. Nukes are for mass destruction. I never have seen any nukes in the Sporting Goods Section of Walmart, but I have seen Guns. I carry a gun 7 days a week for my profession, and no one is ever placed in danger. Responsible people should be the only ones with guns, not a minister with a key that there son can easily get into. The kids insane and needs MHMR and the dad is irresponsible and should have that firearm removed from his home. The kid didn't kill his mother and shoot his father because of Halo 3, he did it because he is crazy.

[Darrius Cole]

That's why we have to help his family and give that prick life without the possibility of parole. He must never be allow to live in the same house with his family again. A person that will murder his mom while she isn't looking will kill anyone. I can't believe that the prosecutors are NOT EVEN ASKING for the death penalty. It smacks of bias to me.

[Umbrageous]

i'm willing to bet most of you didnt even read the full article...it was pretty moving...the kid obviously had some issues that needed to be addressed and the fact that his family forgave him and wanted to start some sort of healing process shows how loving they really are.

It's pretty ignorant for people to say "typical xbox live kid" or any other bullshit like that...grow up

[Tiberium]

I agree. This kid had issues beyond playing videogames. But they certainly didn't help him.

[na2ru1]

i pity humanity

[Uglyslug]

It's a very sad story.

[da_hitman81]

after i saw his pic, I'm not surprised. He looks unstable. I feel bad for the rest of the family.

[Cynical-Gamerzus]

Now he can be Master chief in Prison ,
THis is sad I hope he rotts and everyone of the losers here realize how sad peoples live have become with Video gaming 24/7
Got to college then play video games!!!

[artsaber]

So this will be one less psycho out of a MILLION who cram XBL daily with idiotic threats, racist comments, and anything else that trashes the gaming experience and turn it into a "I'm GONE KILL U" peckerwood fest! This truly is a sad case, but there are some weird ass guys online just like this. You kill the ONE person on Earth who BIRTHED you over fu*king HALO?!!? Not even the CLOSE to being the best game on the CONSOLE!!??!!

Halo3 is like a true 85 rated game... AA Class maybe, but not AAA. This kid needs therapy, and once he realizes what he has truly done, he should be fried on the electric chair with the 360 sitting in his lap.

[Bobic]

I think halo 3 is the most optimized game for 360, and the sheer amount of content is staggering.
1. Campaign (4[?] levels of difficulty)
2. Campaign Co-op
3. Campaign with the cool skulls.
4. Multiplayer (a lot of channels and tons of ranks)
5. Co-op split screen (2 player)
6. Multiplayer 4 player splitscreen (online which is extremely rare for any fps)
7. Theater
8. Theater 4 player (pretty much useless)
9. Forge (practically infinite combinations)
10.Forge 4 player
11.Download anyone's custom map and play it, within minutes.
12.Bungie favorites (download the best new maps)
13.Make a custom gametype, and have anyone play on it within minutes.
14.Play a 4 player custom match.

All that, and the perfected maps (ha ha not you construct), armor custimization, and near infinite replayability makes halo one of the best games for xbox 360, without a doubt. P.S: I don't own an xbox :o

[Socomer 1979]

Know you know what the Red ring of death is all about.

may all xbots die !

[Marquis_de_Sade]

How you still have 5 bubbles is beyond me.

[ultimolu]

*shakes head*

That's messed up.

[Mc187]

This kid needs to go to prison, period.
What just because his family forgives him it's okay, no it's not he still took a life , his own mother's.
He is pathetic and a worthless peice of SH!T.
the law does not care if you r sorry for what you did he should pay the price.

[thematrix1298]

Chair is too easy, he should be sealed in Gas chamber...these mofo are truly human waste.

Just like these a*sholes: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/...

[Laughing Buddha]

Bill Gates is lucky his 360 didn't Red Ring before this incident Who knows what would have been the outcome. But in all seriousness what a tragedy, they must have had some major unresolved issues.

[chikhan]

Looks like he has the IQ of a brick. People like him need to be put down... slowly

[devilhunterx]

NRA's new poster boy

[2tired2day2hate]

HE WAS SOOOOO CLOSE TO A "DOUBLE KILL".

[chase-the-sunset]

oh my god.
what the feck?

It's the parents fault,buying an xbox 360 to an obviously borderline psychotic teen.
It just pushed him over the edge.

The guy looks like he just walked out of an institute.
Nature and Nurture people.

halo cant be blamed.
no matter how bad it is.
This guys obviously fcked in the head.
I hoep he gets skullfcked in jail.

[DeNOOBinator]

He went for the double kill but ended up getting one of his kills stolen.

[knightoftears]

What a moron. And since when is Halo 3 considered violent? This kid is off his f%$&#in meds. R.I.P to the mom, and hope the dad gets well soon. They should hang this kid of by his nutsack.

[jlemdon]

the kid really looks disturbed. I think he should get 10 years plus counciling.

[Blink_44]

No he should get life.

[Aft3rKill]

looking at him i can tell he has problems to begin with. tard

[villevalorox]

hahaha! POG look not only does 9/10 of n4g hate you, Now god hates u!! hahahaha.

[ikaris]

No one sees the real problem here:
Religion.
That kids father, the minister, has always stopped the kid from doing what he loves, taking his aggression out on coded environments; therefore never needed the feeling for real life violence until he could no longer destroy 'objects' which break down to 1s and 0s.

Religion kills people.
Video games are merely entertainment.
Get it straight.

[ElementX]

I'm surprised the power of the Lord didn't do anything to stop this, oh yeah, it's all a hoax!

[cowmanconor]

i don't see how halo 3 is violent but that teenager is pure evil

[ikaris]

Yes you are 12.
You can't play T rated games, or M rated games.
He isn't pure evil, he was just raised incorrectly.

[Jeppe]

"His father, Mark, a minister at New Life Assembly of God in Wellington, put the game in a lock box in a closet where he also kept a 9mm handgun, according to prosecutors."

And why own a gun in the first place? Secondly if you really must have one (I can't find a single reason to), there should be no f* way a teenager in the family can get access to it. Specially if he's emotionally unstable. (like many teenagers are by the way)

No excuses for what he did. But I'm pretty sure this wouldn't have happened if there where no gun in the house..

[BUKKAKALYPSE]

It says he was stuck at home for about a year after a snowboarding accident and was stressed out from bordum..well good thing he didn't get a PS3 or he woulda killed his parents from bordum a looooooong time ago..

Jk! i had to say it due to all the "it's MS's fault/ die xbots die" comments..

[Ldubbz]

Just sad. This has nothing to do with video games really. This kid was obviously messed up. The real culprit here is REAL guns, once again. How the hell do all of these kids have access to guns?

People get all crazy when you talk about gun control, but really...how many people are killed like this, or by accident by guns every year? Im sure its a much bigger amount than how many people have actually defended themselves with a gun this year.

If hunting is your thing, and in some places you need to hunt for population reasons, thats one thing. But people just have too many guns IMO

[ikaris]

Here here.
Messed up family leads to bad bad things.

[terrandragon]

"....violent tabletop games is the reason why this kid did that and this."

Seriously, please....everyone has to point towards videogames that sometimes have nothing to do with what's going on.

P.S. R.I.P. Mom!

[chase-the-sunset]

you know psfanboys will be joking about this for aaaages.

its gold

[JohnnyBadfinger]

Amazing how the topic changes when you little 14 year old fanboy terds jumpin to a serious topic.

I myself have a XBOX the thing pisses me off beyound belief, #1 i get suspend from LIVE for having 'naughty words' in my bio or motto 3 times!! (thats 6 weeks in which ive spent suspended total)#2 the f*cken thing has the 3 red lights at the moment #3 Xbox LIVE always seem to cease working or down for maintence when i want to play it, seeing i work 6 days a week(apprentice carpenter)

But you know whats funny i would never buy a PS3 or Wii because well i don't like there exculsives which anyway turn up on the xbox later on anyway.

This teen with the brain of a infant doesn't deserve a second chance his mother doesn't get one, so why should he? anyone who can't differentiate real life from fiction is trouble. but you know whats gunna happen with the kid don't you, he'll get off due to his insanity plea and be back to locking himself in his room playing more video games, f*cken sad.

Ever herd the expression "The Devil looks after his own" this here is the perfect example.

[samura]

Red Ring Of Death, while playing a ranked game.

[felidae]

i hope he burns in prison