5 Video Games That Caused Real Life Deaths!
So we all love video games and video games is one of the best way to kill time, but sometimes it kills you in real life instead these are 5 video games that Caused Real Life Deaths!
#1 Halo 3
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On October 20 , 2007, 16 year old Daniel Petric of Welling ton, shot his mother and father in the head with a handgun that he stole from his father, Daniel had been playing halo 3 nonstop that he had purchased secretly without his father’s consent, and his mother caught him.
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And his father punished him taking the game away and locked in his safe next to his handgun and Daniel stole the key, used it to retrieve the game and also take the handgun, and told his parents to close their eyes because he had a surprise for them, and his mother, Susan died of a gun shot in the head, but his father survived only to learn that his son tried to frame him with the murder, Daniel was caught and given 25 years to his life for the crime .
#2 Diablo 3
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an 18 year old boy from Taiwan named Chuang, died on july 15 , 2012 adter he used a private room in an internet cafe to play the game, for 40 hours straight without eating or resting, after the marathon, an employee came to check on him and found him asleep in a room waking up he stood and walked few steps, before collapsing to the floor from a blood clot that formed in his leg, and then traveled to his heart killing him where he stood,
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#3 XBOX Games
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in 2008 in the city of Philadelphia Tyrone Spellman brutally beat his 17 month old daughter, Aleyiah Spellman she accidentally pulled on the cords to his xbox console and caused it to fall, he would spend 6 to 7 hours a day playing games on his xbox. it sent Tyrone in to violent rage he crack his daughters skull multiple times, and he even threw her across the room and his daughter died from the physical trauma, while her mother slept in her room.
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Tyrone confessed to the crime the next day, he was found guilty of third degree murder and child endangerment and was sentenced to 47 years behind bars.
#4 Lineage 2 clan battle clan
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Lineage 2 is an online massively multiplayer fantasy game the rivalry between two Russian players clans, the platinum clan and the Coo-clocks clan had been taking to boiling point when one player killed unfairly, one player from each clan agreed to meet in the city of Ufa, and while there a real fight happens and Albert a 23 year old Platinum clan player died from his injuries while he was being taking to the hospital.
The other player in the fight a 22 year old Russian man was charge with murder after Albert's death the members of the Coo-clocks clan began to harass his family while they grieved over his loss and they even threatened his sister.
#5 Grand theft auto
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June 7 2008 an 18 year old David Darnell Thompson was apprehended on suspicion of stolen car in Fayette, Alabama ans was taking to a local police station to be processed Devin was a hardcore player of Grand Theft Auto, and he decides one day, to act like his in the game while at the station he managed to steal a handgun from an officer and use to shot officer Arnold Stickland and officer James Crump and a police dispatcher Leslie Mealer all of whom died after the shooting, Devin stole the keys to a police cruiser and fled the scene and he was arrested again the same day, and confessed saying that he shot the officers and ran to avoid going to jail.
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Devin pleaded not guilty he was charge with the three murders, and on October 9, 2005 he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. and it was discoverer before David shot the officers he quoted saying "Life is a video game you've got to die sometimes" .