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Banned Gamer Kills Dad

By pete_gallagher

A terrible story emerging from Russia details the story of a 14-year old boy reacting to having his videogame privileges revoked by killing his sleeping father with two blows to the head from a sledge hammer.

The events took place in the Russian town of Tuapse just after midnight on April 12, reports a story on News.com.au. The boy's parents had taken his keyboard away from him in order to curb his computer game playing, but after the killing, 'the boy's frightened mother gave him the keyboard back and the boy played computer games for several more hours until he fell asleep.'

Once the boy fell asleep, his mother called relatives, who, in turn, called police. The boy is old enough to be charged with murder under Russian law.

|Via Kotaku, Thanks Andrew|

Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on April 15, 2010 (boomark / email).