I am still rather shocked that people believe the kid when he says a video game made him kill. I wonder why thousands of other teenagers aren't running around boosting cars and trying to shoot police officers. Blame the family, blame the abuse that he may have sustained, but please don't blame the bloody video game! :dead:TEEN MURDERER Devin Moore was sentenced to death yesterday for killing three police officers as he tried to escape from custody.
While in the history of US criminal law there is nothing unusual about this, Moore’s case has attracted a lot of attention because he claimed to be under the influence of the violent game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. In fact he seemed to have been inventing this alibi the moment he was caught saying the words “Life is a video game, you have to die sometime.”
Your thoughts on this maniac?
The Inquirer linkage.
Wired linkage (older news article.