Broken halo

[spacekadette]

Teen shot both his parents in the head because they wouldn't let him play Halo 3.

Mom died, dad survived.

Another article with more info.

Comments

[gracewanderer]

I'd bet good money that if you looked into this more you'd find that his parents had a history of being extremely controlling and oppressive.

[spacekadette]

After the second article, commenters propose a similar situation as a possibility.

Nonetheless, shooting one's parents in the head over a video game indicates a level of mental instability regardless of whether his parents were oppressive or not.

Respectively, some teens have killed their parents because of rather severe sexual or physical abuse. This kid just seems at the time to just have been tragically infused with a sense of entitlement.

[gracewanderer]

Yeah, my original post had a whole lot of projection going on in it actually. My parents were extremely controlling, so I assumed his were as well. But really my point is that a normal kid doesn't just murder his parents one day over a video game, and that a kid doesn't get fucked up enough to murder his parents without the parents contributing to it somehow.

So yeah I guess I'm kind of blaming them for getting shot... kind of.

[bjjlife]

Reading both articles it does tell me one thing. The parents were just being parents. They took the violent video game away. Only Halo 3 is mentioned. They didn't take the xbox away just one single game. Sorry if that is too controlling but parents have the right to draw a line in the sand and create standards for their children. Maybe the parents felt uncomfortable with him being up all night shooting people online. The article did point out that he had spent a lot of time playing Halo. Hell the parents might of just taken the game away just to get a decent nights sleep

[bjjlife]

Looks like the story continues.

http://kotaku.com/5129430/petric-convicted-of-halo-3-inspired-matricide