he wasnt even that good at the game.....

And he took one of them out. Over a piece of plastic with data on it.



Yeah, THIS is society today folks.

should have been beaten a long time ago. To have no respect for life is simply amazing. Let alone to kill over a video game. I hope he's put away for a long time, if not given the chair.



-V

Literally



I think he got into an accident before, so he's pleading like he's psycho...

But either way, attempting to kill ur parent and actually killing ur mom for a game is just stupid.



R.I.P.

it seems that 99.9% of these little "incidents" are composed of 360 owners or white people (or both)!



not trying to be a bastard, but so it seems

this *****got gets to feel so much pain somehow then they should kill him dude u could borrow ur friends or buy another halo 3

good to know the comments here are not supportive to that kid because we all like games



R.I.P to the mother

This guy is sick i hope he fries.



It wasn't the video game that did this it was this pathetic loser who couldn't accept that his parents were doing whats best for him. As it is obvious to everyone.

That's F*cked up just for a game

Another needless death occurs due to a sick individual. I don't care if he was playing hello kitty island adventure. It's funny many cases like this happen every day yet this one sticks out because he was playing halo 3 I don't think so. If the boys hobby was making boats or model cars etc and they banned him from that the same thing probably would of happened. Comments like there shouldn't be a gun in the house is like saying I raped her because she was wearing sexy clothes. This is horrible let the fallen rest in peace and allow the grieve stricken to cope with their pain. Please to all your ignorant people please stop blaming video games for these Hannis crimes take the time too view your surroundings and you'll find the truth.



May The Lord bless all who suffer

You cannot judge what caused an event until you have ruled every other one out.



For example, you would have to place 100 boys in a room, and all they would do is play video games. And see if they behave violently.



Unlike real life, kids face other difficulties, like being bullied or having a bad home life. You cannot blame video games as the problem. Also, in regard to the firearm, it's a right to be able to own one, we should not take away that right because one madman is misusing that freedom.



In conclusion, it's silly to blame an event on one hobby or pastime.

He got mad because his 360 got RRoD. LOL:D



He can't get death penalty but I think he could be put in juvi and then sentenced to life in prison. It's funny how the dad had a gun even though he was a minister. Someone doesn't love god enough. And as for the kid he is insane. His friends must be kickin his ass in Halo 3 to get that upset for the game. Halo 1 was still the best.

Somehow religion always make people go crazy. An example of that is Catholic chicks that went to Catholic schools are really horny.

This guy is the worse killer in the world. And here are my questions for this stupidity.



1. Why shoot his parents when they were probably the one's that gave him the money to buy it in the first place?



2. Which Gamestop sold him the game because that game is Rated M?



3. Why for this game? WoW I'd understand people are addicted to that game.



4. Why did the parents hold the game for that long? They should have given it to the kid at least 2 weeks later and told him that his actions were wrong.



kaoken is right. Religious parents are pushy sometimes because they believe they are always right because they think they know more.

Danny Petric was a preacher's son

and when his daddy was busy he took his gun...





The only one who could ever reach me, was the son of a preacher man!



The only one who could ever teach me, was the son of a preacher man!

why do *we* have guns? to shoot each other.



whatta great christian way of thinking. get real, man.



or maybe, *we* have guns so we can shoot our folks. i should have thought of that long ago...

you mean that black and poorer people dont shoot each other in america? hahaha

It's called get a deadbolt or 2, heavy oak door, and an alarm system....maybe a bat and some mace if you are extra worried.....9mm is just uncalled for...



Seems too many paranoid people in America have guns just because they can, and justify it by saying it's for "protection". However, home invasions are definately not that common to warrant it.

Jesus Christ! Halo 3 isn't even a great game! It's lacking the punch of the first game and serves merely to line Bungies pockets, which years ago you would never have thought possible (being a better studio and focussing on making great games each time).



Ah well. Poor family. Hope the kid goes to gaol for a lonnng while.

Somebody get dat kid a Halo 3 game to play for the next 25 years in jail or hell take every inmate out one by one. He obviously plays no games. " Till he felt the back of his head go numb". His father mustve got what he was looking for because he doomed himself to it. Preaching gods word and owning a 9mm just doesnt go toghether...... Lame on him

I dare someone to take my Halo 3... lol

So why is it that most of the news about children killing their parrents and so on is from america? It's because of the freaking weapons you have think about it when was the last time you heard this kind of news from Europe for an example? So yah your way of thinking ("I need a gun for protection") is what gets you killed...

I will bet you anything that this kid was on Prozac, Ritalin, Luvox, Zoloft, or Paxil.



What nobody is talking about is that every school shooting in the last 15 years has involved Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) drugs which are prescribed for ADHD and I have no doubt this murder wasn't part of the pattern.



For you people that are somehow tying this to his parents being strict or religious, I wonder how you explain that we didn't see an epidemic of this 60, 70 or even 100 years ago when ALL parents were much stricter, and much more religious.

What a sick bastard, that game isn't even that good anyway...

Thats what happens when u pirate r games and dont buy it.

Thats what happens when u pirate r games and dont buy it.

Thats what happens when u pirate r games and dont buy it.

Thats what happens when u pirate r games and dont buy it.

Thats what happens when u pirate r games and dont buy it.

Thats what happens when u pirate r games and dont buy it.

Thats what happens when u pirate r games and dont buy it.

Thats what happens when u pirate r games and dont buy it.

Thats what happens when u pirate r games and dont buy it.

I think you should see a doctor mate.

Just look at him..

Dudes' A F*cking NOODLE!

This is a reason that we'll all

be living in demolition man world

40 yo virgins in pajamas, eating taco bell

Singing "I'm an oscar meyer wiener"

F*ck!

It doesn't really seem like the best place to hide it, why not just put it in a box or the freezer or whatever, just not next to a gun since that whould be linking a virtual item to a real one.



Never ever link virtual and actual reallity together.

You must be joking stupid *****$ shoot eachother everyday over nothing and are completely ignorant. Obama...CHANGE!!!! what a joke.

Wow *****s, how do we know the murder was in any way related to the stupid game? Maybe it was just one of the many straws that broke the camel's back.

I dissagree he found the gun right at his hand begging him to use it but if he didnt saw the gun he'd probably just stay very angry at them at the most he would hit his parrents...

What he's trying to say is that these particular incidents involve white kids (The two Final Fantasy 7 murdering kids, the 14 kid who killed the rancher GTA style, etc)... We all know that a majority of shooting crimes in general are done by minorities tho...

I blame the kid and his parents. they have two different psychoses that factored into this (religion and fvckin' crazy)



I don't believe that the attempted/murder was about the game. I agree that there really wasn't much in this kids life. He snuck the game into the house which means that he knows his parents wouldn't approve (he owned a 360 so he was probably forced to play Viva Pinata) It also proves that religion without true faith is bull***** because for how controlled his life may have been with his preacher father and how repressed he may have been by his mother, their obsession with religion and non-violence didn't stop the killer he harbored inside of him (He was actually crazy, he sarcastically mocked his parents before shooting them) His dad's survival might explain why he didn't make sure his dad died before the others arrived, because his Dad's beliefs may have been a problem but who knows what his mother was like. he was still looking for the game like any good sneak would do but found something better than what he was looking for in the lock box: a way to stop his parents' control



Let's be honest

I know his type...

the typical Halo player/Future Killer has:

few friends

army or camo clothes

glasses

a bully

buzzcut

white skin

some problem that requires medication

xbox(360)

CQC

and a gun (collection)

oh, and Halo



And his parents

i know their type too...

they forced him to:

go to church

repress all expression that didn't coincide with their beliefs

take on their beliefs

and go nuts.



so there .

Halo might be a good game but its not worth killing for. I bet if his parents didn't own a gun he would have found the game and played it on the sly



this should be a lesson to God Freak parents that they can't control their kids beliefs



and a valuable study of classic, crazy Columbine-Halo kids!

he might be worst than retarded kid...i wonder how can he kill his parents.....duh. Seeing these kinda ***** heads i wish the alcatraz prison isn't closed.....

there were 10 times more such killings 100 years ago! Nobody knew about them because it was easy to cover up. Now each killing is widely publicized.

it just seems so, save the dood from thailand or watever that country was....taiwan?





anyways, wat im trying to say is that those ***** ass kids are white, and its because of games....those dirty *****s on the other hand, couldnt afford these systems.....

You are so deep. And wise. Maybe you should become... a minister!

Obviously, since dad works in that place, whatever it is, he's very religious. Parents took the ESRB rating too seriously.

It's not surprising the amount of idiotic comments posted about this issue.



There is really no ONE person to blame in this incident.



Do you blame the game companies for creating 'violent' video games?



Do you blame the father for owning a handgun and not keeping the key secured?



Do you blame the child for overreacting to such a strong degree to commit murder?



Do you blame the game store employee that sold him the game?



How do you assign 'guilt' in this matter? The truth of it is this will continue to happen forever and ever because it is impossible to control people's lives.



Sure you can "M" rate games, but apparently that doesn't work.



Sure you can lock your guns up in gun safes, but apparently that doesn't work.



Sure you can teach understanding, respect for life, and compassion, but apparently that doesn't work.



There really is no way to prevent these crimes from occurring.



It's a very sad and tragic incident, which probably could not have been avoided at any cost.



The only truth in this matter is that this child has some kind of severe mental problems: whether bipolar, adhd, depression, schitzophrenia, or whatever.



Something in this child's head snapped, and there was no going back. The fact that it was 'Halo 3' had nothing to do with it. It could have been a 'Mario' game or any other game. With the conditions met to make this child snap, he would do it no matter what the 'Title' or 'Genre' of the video game was.



With all that said, I could never ever ever imagine hurting my parents.. I've never struck them, threatened them or anything of the like.



I consider myself to be a pretty well-rounded individual and when I hear of crimes like this it's hard for me to understand what could cause someone to do this.



I almost have to agree with buzzkill3r though about the psychoactive drugs being distributed throughout society now. Many children are being used as 'guinea pigs' while determining which medications 'work' and which don't. These psychological imbalances are what most likely contribute to these acts of violence. The fact that this kid was 'white' or that his parents were religious played little into the motive behind this.



All in all, this child would have committed these crimes regardless of whether it was 'Halo 3' or any other game title. He would have committed these crimes regardless of whether it was being denied the video game, or being denied any other action that the kid enjoys doing. What if the parents said "No you can't skateboard anymore?" and took away his skateboard (or something similar). The emotional trigger is what caused his psychological thinking to become traumatized beyond rationality.



So where do you draw the line?

One could say guns talk...



They are an ultimate symbol of power, which gets to peoples heads, especially angry teens.



The gun itself may not have talked (course you'd have to be an idiot to think that is what he was reffering too) but it sure does get an angry mind racing with stupid ideas....all at the easy pull of a trigger...

natural selection does not apply to us .it is people like you that cause Columbine High School massacre thinking about natural selection

i have heard of people getting shot for being out late in the wrong place, or wearing the wrong color shirt in the wrong side of town or even going hunting with ***** Cheney, but this here beats em all, too bad..



oh and quite a shocker, i have never played a halo game, none at all in the series. nothing against it just never played it lol

It's not against christianity to kill someone, especially for protecting someone. If a burglar brakes into your home and threatens your life, your probably okay to shoot him, but if your provoking the fight then your probably not okay.

This kid was probably totally stressed tho, his dad was a minister and that can be a huge pain in the ass. And people take for granted that it's thousands of times safer now than 100 years ago, haven't you guys heard of the wars in the past century? and lack of forensics

Uhmm.. guys, can we calm down on the rascist comments? It doesnt matter whether he was black or white, he's still pretty *****ed in the head.

Wow.. as much as I hate to say it, no wonder there are so many ignorant people out there blaming video games for violence...



That said, before the mob goes on a war march to have games banned or blaming all sorts of nonsense, they should consider if this tragedy, like many other tragedies caused by youth gun crime could have been avoided if it wasn't so easy to obtain and own a gun in America. I know that people go to incredible lengths to showcase their violence, for example in the UK where I am from, people with no guns use knives quite expertly. But there is a difference between people who are destined to cause harm and murder and people who are pushed to such actions simply because the tools to carry them out are so conveniently available. Combine that with a plethora of other reasons, not the least being a psychotic teenage loser.

#1:I am black last I checked and I own every system and could buy more if I wanted.



#2:while blacks do shoot each other, it's never ever as terrible as what whites do. at least we kill people that not in our family and for reasons that don't involve toys and/or games. Not to mention the fact that its almost accepted by society for blacks to kill each other, while for whites its... well... not so acceptable.(white kid shoots someone... OMGWTFBBQ! the sky is falling and the world is ending. Black kid shoot someone... Meh. he had it comin...)



#3:this kid is messed up. he was gonna kill the people who brought him in this world and with a smile on his face probably at the same time. only thing is that he got caught.

I never knew so many of QJ's readers were so racist.

I totally blame the parents here, who keeps there son's banned game in the same box as a 9mm. and why the hell does a minister need a gun. for fück sake people, get rid of your guns. theres a reason why most (if not all) of europe banned them and its for this very reason. people can say "it's for are protection", protection from what? each other?! have you guys ever heard of a tazer!? electrocute the ***** out of a possibal intruder at least that way you don't end up with a dead person.



The Kid was messed up in the membrain simple as that. he had strict Religious parents, a gun in the house, put there by his 'confused' miniter dad and had a mental problem which all builds up to a situation like this.



Makes me happy i'm an atheist.....

For all you misinformed people here, Guns are not evil it is because of DUMBA$$ES like this that people decide to protect themselves with firearms.



Cops: Cape Girardeau woman kills man who returned to rape her second time



ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

10/31/2008



An intended rape victim shot and killed her attacker this morning in Cape Girardeau when he broke into her home to rape her a second time, police said.



The 57-year-old woman shot Ronnie W. Preyer, 47, a registered sex offender, in the chest with a shotgun when he broke through her locked basement door.

The woman told police he was the same man who raped her several days earlier. Officials do not intend to seek charges against her.



In the first incident, the woman heard glass breaking in her basement about midnight on Saturday. She went to leave the house, and the man attacked when she opened the front door. He punched her in the face and then forced her into a bedroom, where he raped her, said H. Morley Swingle, prosecuting attorney in Cape Girardeau County.



The victim reported the crime to police, and her landlord repaired the broken window.



She was home alone again Friday about 2:15 a.m. when Preyer broke the same basement window. The victim was awake watching television, when Preyer switched off the electricity to her house.



She tried to call 911, but couldn't because the power was off. She got a shotgun and waited as the man began banging on the basement door. She fired when Preyer came crashing through the door. When Preyer collapsed, the woman escaped and went to a neighbor's home, where she called police. Officers, who arrived within a minute, found a bleeding Preyer stumbling away from the house. He was taken to St. Francis Medical Center, where he died several hours later.



Swingle said the victim identified Preyer as the attacker in both incidents. Preyer, of Jackson, Mo., had wet caulking from the recently repaired basement window on his clothing when he was shot.



"I will not be filing any sort of charge against this 57-year-old woman, who was clearly justified under the law in shooting this intruder in her home," Swingle said.



Good For Her!



Everbody Go Purchase A Gun, the world will be a safer place.

JackBauer4201 I don't usually say this but you are racist!

I agree the kid was a complete jack*ss and he was obviously over spoiled but to much things that are more mature have been taken away. Now about the racial crap.... I can explain it. I'd say about 90 percent of blacks and beaners that kill other people kill because they are gangbangers and are a little screwed up in the head because of their poor childhood.I don't know about blacks but about half of white parents don't let their kids play m games. Beaners don't care what their kids play. Asians...well asians well make the games for people like him to screw his life up. Here is a list in percent of whose fault it is.

Friends 25% (WERE probably telling him "if that were me i would kill them")

Parents 20% (spoiling while restricting to much stuff)

Violent Video Games 5% (It pains me to say this but violent video games have some fault in it.)

Himself 35% (He was obviouly an idot and had some mental issues.)

His dad having a gun and it being their right nex to the game 15%

What a long tread of ***** Talk we got here! lol



I better get my ***** here too...



"I knew Halo3 and this Teenagers with his Xbox360 machine was a bad Idea..." LOL



Are you kidding, why in first play this kid had Xbox 360!?



Xbox360 == Violent Video Console



Most of the Xbox360 games are Violent, FPS and BloooDY!



This parents never though that was too violent was his own son and not the game...



They thought that this game was going to make his son corrupt and violent and he was already when they allowed him to have an Xbox 360! lol

No, really, seriously!

That's why Everyone should have a Nintendo Wii ROLF!



I said Seriously!

Thank you bloody reader!

PSPMAN90



IRONIC!

I was about to ask the same thing. While pokemon cards are not satanic, school dances are completely forbidden by our religion. And before some wise @$$ says "oh, the Quran states 'no school dances'?", it does state that you shouldn't get intimate with people you're not married to. And yes, fondling them counts.

-

It's really awful to be so glib about this. Politics aside, a woman is dead and a number of people's lives are ruined.

Lets face it the game really encourages violence and indeed one of the fact that he shots his parents.



But we need to look inside all the causes:



*The minister with a gun.

*Family ties

*The teen had trouble differentiating VIRTUAL & REALITY

*Genetically imbalance

*The game opened a door & the devil took control (paranormally)

i bet the parents are already twisted f**ks to raise a kid like that

Preacher's kids were the craziest...



At least that's what my mom said.

So do I lol like lots of pc mags and a few maximum