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.