Teen stabs brother to death over videogame dispute |
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It's a sad state of affairs when something so trivial as a mere argument over a videogame can degenerate into something much, much worse. Unfortunately, this is the case with 16-year-old Antwan Ricks, the young man dying of a single stab wound to the chest inflicted by his younger brother, 13-year-old Jahmir Ricks, in what appears to be a dispute over who gets to play next, last Sunday.So what really happened? As it turns out, Jahmir had beaten his older brother in a videogame, and the latter refused to pass the controller to someone else - thus breaking a house rule of giving someone else a chance to play after you've lost in a match.
Things got real ugly real fast, with the dispute turning into a heated argument, then into a full-on brawl - and then into murder, as Jahmir stabbed his older brother in the chest with a steak knife.
The police were called in immediately after the incident, arriving a few minutes before 1 p.m. Jahmir was immediately apprehended, cuffed and put in the back of a police car - and it's to note that there was no struggle reported. It also seemed that Jahmir was fully aware of what he had done, saying "I just stabbed my brother," to the policemen who arrived. His brother, Antwan, was pronounced dead at the Delaware County Memorial Hospital, 20 minutes after the arrest was made, with the cause of death being a single stab wound in the chest.
Charged with first degree murder, third-degree murder, aggravated and simple assault, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and possession of instruments of crime - Jahmir is now being held in the county prison without bail, waiting on a pending hearing Magisterial District Judge John J. Perfetti.
Truly a very shocking incident, from a county that's relatively peaceful - as Antwan's death marks the borough's first homicide for 2007, and putting Delaware's toll to 25. Updates as we get them.
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Video Games do turn make people violent. It doen't have to happen to every gamer, it can happen to some. We still don't want that, do we?
RIP fellow gamer...
Thanks to this kids idiot younger brother, Thompson is going to have a field day, though.
Parents?
Video Games do turn make people violent. It doen't have to happen to every gamer, it can happen to some. We still don't want that, do we?
Where were the parents during all this? When I was younger my parents didn't let my brothers and I argue hardly at all before we got split up.
Congratulations kid, You've just ruined your life and given *****s like Thompson more to rant about.
You deserve whatever you get.
I dont feel bad for the suspect because he deserved it. He just ruined his whole life... he will not finish college until he is like 60 when he gets out of jail....and what college would let him join. He will never get a job outside jail. Now a lesson to be learned, dont over react or you will ruin you life.
I dont feel bad for the suspect because he deserved it. He just ruined his whole life... he will not finish college until he is like 60 when he gets out of jail....and what college would let him join. He will never get a job outside jail. Now a lesson to be learned, dont over react or you will ruin you life.
Good job, now youll have to wait 15-L before youll get your turn at the controller again lol.
what a moron
Sounds like a screwed up family to me.
Wtf is wrong with that kid?
I'm guessing what happened is the older brother was being a sore loser, so then when they fought the old brother beat the living daylights out of him, the younger brother, angry at his beating went to the kitchen, got a knife and stabbed him. He then realized by the stain of his brothers blood on his hand he realized what he's done. Unfortunately life is not a video game so neither of them can rewind time and right their wrongs.
Oh well, now they're both *****ed.
I blame sony. They make there console something to argue over. Most people argue when playing PS3. Probable due to lack of games, crap console ect.. :( very sad news indeed.
This is what noobz do when they play game. What game were they playing? pokemon? and hey! whats the legal age in this country? or why does the title says teen?
This kid is psychotic. Nevermind the parents. It's enough that their older son is dead because of the stupidity that runs through the kid's mind. It's apparent that the kid had serious killing tendencies otherwise what kid would stab his own sibling with a knife over a stupid disagreement. Forget the death penalty. Someone should chop his hands off.
I bet it was a 360 they were fighting over...the older brother knew the 360 was going to fail at anytime and have to be sent back to M$ for repairs so he wanted to play as long as possible b4 it got the rings of death again. =[
they have games consoles in prison
do u have to be an idiot ... honestly why do u need to say somthing so stupid?... let me guess ur an xbox fanboy?
I mean, who would fight over a PS3 or Wii anyways? Nobody wants to play those.
Let this be a lesson to those of you who try to keep the controller after losing....
Just give it up, or you will get murdered......this kid is a trailblazer for gamer rights everywhere! No more controller hogs says the steak knife....someone has to make the first stand you know....
idk they would of reported somewhere if the younger brother had physical injuries
F*ck you
Don't get me wrong this is very sad but its also a rare case, i doubt its the fact over video games, its more of the person themselves being violent..take into consideration any problems he may have or his parents..where where they? wouldnt they teach him better then this? Anyhow, Jack Thompson is by no means right, video games do NOT make people violent, there are millions of perfectly normal gamers, finding someone who is some sort of a gamer is not uncommon at all, most males probably are in one way or another, and males get in trouble with the law but its not because of the games, its the person...Jack Thompson blames it all on games and would get rid of them if he could, would you like that? is that what you want? Besides hes a liar and will go as far as to forge cases to bring video games down, its also all about money these days, sueing over games in one way or another is just an excuse to get money
wow, a kid just DIED, and you guys make jokes about it, and try to start flame-wars over consoles.
incase it didnt hit you hard enough the first time you read it, ill say it again.
A KID DIED.
now please, shape up, act like humans, and show some respect.
My prayers go out to the family.
Jeez. They guy made a joke about the 360 and I made one about the PS3 (and Wii cuz I don't know which one he prefers :P) Its just a joke. I own a PS3 and a Wii too.
My thoughts go out to those affected by this tragedy. I'm sure noone is more crushed then the parents who now have one dead child and the other facing a long time in jail.
This is about more than games guys. No need to bring that Jack Thompson, XBOX vs. PS crap here. It's just a damn sad scenario for everyone involved. Basically the kid didn't know what to do with his aggression so he lashed out in the wrong way. The fight could have been over anything...
R.I.P. Antwan Ricks
anywhere i go you are there being a stupid fanboy with no life, you comment in every article and something as sad as this you still show your microsofts little butt polisher, i cant believe you would attack another console in an article like this im not even going to comment on PS3 but your totally wrong and nothing you say is credible or even worth listening too
u'r an idiot [probably not the real mr common sense].
this guy is just an idiot + probably just trying to start a flame war.
You see what happens...Sony should have given us the PRICE CUT,kid was probably pis*ed that he didn't get the price cut.He got angry and went into psycho mode,
599 Euros common wtf?
Thank you Sony and f*ck you
I don't mean to come off cold hearted, but why should I care? I don't know this kid, and people die all the time. You can't honestly say you feel for this kid.
Bam *****uh j00 dead!
hey kid, you can always commit suicide, after all you have 1up left LOL.
poor parents tho
Congrats, you've just proved that there is no such thing as common sense by that comment you wrote.
I present the #1 retard award to Mister common retard.
people says. videogames make boys to lose the scense of what is bad and what is good. i say, try to teach them im home.. video games offer us an alternative way to pass time playing, and i actully love all video games related whit killing, murder and gore stuff. but i dont go in the streets killing people.... as i say... theach them in home....
great i'll never get to play manhunt 2.
kid deserved it, GIVE UP THE F()CKING CONTROLLER IF ITS NOT YOUR TURN
I won't even include you common sense - I know you don't give a *****.
But seriously - this isn't funny. People dying isn't cool. And no one deserves to be on either side of something like that - to know you took a life or to lose a life.
And QJ - for christ sake, this isn't ps3 news, this isn't gaming news. This is just the reality that many people live in.
I for one am glad to live in a place where things like this don't happen. And if they every do happen - it's like a once in 40 years type deal. Not saying that things like this can't happen anywhere - I am just saying that it's laid back here and life is lived.
Little boy got owned by a litt'ler boy.
People do this at British soccer games all the time. SPORTS ARE HELL SENT.
Why the hell would you stab your brother... I never once thought of that even when im really pissed off.
He knew what he was doing... Thats what happens when you have a temper problem, and how did the parent raise them to be doing this...
This is horrible for me because i think I knew that 16 year old. it was a long time ago and he was 2 years older than me in elementary school he was really nice and if that wasn't him he's the same age. But what really sucks is that people are really going to be going against videogames now.
Two wrongs dont make a right... Life in prison is good because hes basically dead and he has time to think.
I never could understand how killing someone makes everythink ok..
u r gay
As someone already said, rest in peace fellow gamer. This makes me really sad. Of course the older brother should play nice and the younger should not have stabbed the brother. Somehow i dont really think its the video games that really drove the kid to murder. Video games are just too trivial (i mean too trivial for murder), it would have to be a combination of things that happened in the past between them and also just one thing leading to another.
No one wants to fight over a PS3 cause theres mature players playing them, they know its just a game. But idk bout the Wii lol...
Would it be so weird if he did feel for the kid? You seem more worried about what he posted than the sociopathic comments typed awhile ago. Sure it's common not to have as much sympathy towards a stranger's death as opposed to someone you know, but when you have people making inappropriate comments like the ones here, that's when there's room to queston those people's moral values.
That games prevent violence?... Cause people will have fun ''killing'' (Fake people) in a videogame instead of real life
I dun care who you are, I spent plenty a heated battles with siblings, when we were younger, about 'whose turn it is' and.... we've never resulted to knives. Mostly cursing.
If ur trying to be funny... its not working so stfu
I live blocks away from there and used to go to school in the very area this happened. Delaware county is one big ****hole riddled with idiots like this. Video game or not, this kid sounds like he was on his way to one *****up lifestyle. Thank you philly for dumping all your human trash on this once thriving county.
btw this happened in PA not DE. come on now, Delaware?! what state is that in?
**** gets r4ped in prison...giving thompson something to fricken rant about now! god...why cant people just pass the controller..its like puff puff pass..you play the game, lose, or win, pass the controller!
Hopefully Thompson is outta town on vacation. It is nothing got to do with how games affect you or anything like that. Just simply, this guy had problems and he could have been having the worst day of his life until things got ugly.
Had to be a *****! It just had to be a *****! Why *****s? WHY?
so, did the kid get to play after the incident? man am i lucky i dont suck, so i never lose my turns! but yeah, if he got to play at least before he went to jail, then good for him
Is this another one of the sick black crime cases.
...it just happened over an argument involving one.
Siblings get physically violent with one another all the time, it's just sad that one of these was *****ed up enough to kill his.
It's even sadder that the fact a video game was involved, will be used to fuel anti-video game bull*****. If this happened during an argument over cheating in a board game or who's turn it was to choose a TV channel, THAT wouldn't be mentioned in the headline. In fact, it's doubtful it'd be reported at all.
Jack was a guy who sucked @ v games.... now hes an old fart who is just like every other old fart. A person who hates every inth of video games. He can take this fellow gamers spot.:
A note to the lost:
Feel the heat of the sun no more. Feel no pains of life. For as you pass through the pearly gates, you will be cleansed of all sin. Your family dearly miss you, but do not greive. For one day you will be reunited. Farewell our fellow gamer. Farewell to a peaceful soul. Your time was not yet here. But our Father has calleth upon you. And you must go. So I take my leave and bid you a final farewell. May you have no game overs in Heaven. And may we too, meet you someday.
Farewell our fellow gamer, and may our fingers bleed before we stop playing for you.
All gamers are similar in ways, and we all need not forget it.
TheMetroid
age 17
Wii owner
videogames make people violent. This is anger making someone violent. Someone here killed is brother over fried chicken. Yes. Fried chicken. Does that mean fried chicken makes people violent?
before I get to prison to be r4ped for life I will kill my self.
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first of all this is a horrible thing that happend. secondly, This boy was apperently disturbed,
Thirdly, jack thompson is never right "about anything he ever says".
people need to remeber in public forums. you see a lot of veried opinions, that doesnt make those people heartless or cold empty basterdized shells of a human.
when people are shocked.
And it's safe to say this was indeed shocking.
you will see a meriod of diversed opions form anger, disgust, rage.
its really hard to judge a person from a single botched comment on the internet, You dont know that person, where they are from and what they have been through.
So lets all stop attacking each other. and focus on the topic a little more.
Video Games aren't the main reason why the boy started to hit his brother. He didn't felt good by giving something away that takes away his pleasure, so decided to kick his bro.
Well isn't it that parents, who are raising us, are the ones to teach us how to threat each other. And if it is already this far with these kids, then something went really wrong with by these parents when raising there kids!
I mean actually stabbing your own brother, in the chest (not the leg, though that's obviously wrong too).
Over something so petty as a game, though this kind of thing happens but for different reasons it just arises from heated tempers. The cause wouldn't matter if they were that, as you put it, psychotic.
actually a lot of the research says that playing violent computer games for extended periods of time can infact desensitize children and infact make them more likely to react violently to stressfull situations. There are plenty of resources with thios information. And infact if you play games too much you become more stupid. True. If you use your motor skills more than the rest of your brain then as that develops you infact lose some of you ability to retain information and solve conundrums in real life
Bad parenting causes violence.
No really, I'm sure they got along great before they played a videogame together.
Stop using my good name for evil, such as anti video game legislation, PS3 support, blu ray, etc.
They sound like black guy names to me....
not implying that black people are more violent than anyone else, it was just an observation.
maybe if the older brother wasn't such a d.ick he would still be alive.
what does this have to do with the story? It could happen anywhere. It's just bad parenting.
if you look it up, something like this happened before over a football game with two adults. Those names sounds white.
*****in retards deserve 2 die both of em. *****s, they were just weak minded, games r not responsable
its not the video game. the same thing would happen to these two boys say if they didn't want to share the TV or if they could drive share the car. its not the products fault, its the person's fault
Hopefully my hero Jack Thompson will step in to stop this out of control videogame violence that was obviously at fault for this incident.
By the way, my real name is Peter Dille.
Why should we care?
The parents are probably trash, I mean what kind of parent isn't around to keep their kids from hating each other so much they kill each other? The father was probably long gone. The mother was probably giving hand jobs for crack and collecting wellfare. Put the whole peice of s*it family that remains in jail. Good riddance.
Even if I did know either kid, it doesn't seem like someone I would care about. I would probably be happy to see him dead. They're trash. Plenty of people like that in the world. Plenty more to replace them. Anybody that's against abortion is an idiot. This is why abortion is needed. Too many people are too stupid to decide if they're responsible enough to have children.
i dont blame the video games.it was the fact that the kid lost and nothing else.
are you that heartless? Why do they both deserve to die HUH!? Why not the one who did it, why not you!? Have you turned a blind eye on what I have said!? It was his fault, but in a blinding anger anything can happen. Beleive me, I have had my share of blindness. Why not put yourself in his shoes, and be the one to see the last thing he saw. And feel the pain he did for that short time. Why can't we all drop this damn life we call gaming, and learn to love each other respectively? My life has been corrupted by games. I dropped out of school because of games. I am a cold hearted b@st@ard when it comes to games.
My nephew is on the same track as I. He's 5.
lol
some one got owned
Too bad for that kid. My thought is that the 16 year old should'nt have been such a ***** to let his little brother stab him.
Its not the video games fault that the guy had anger problems...by thier names you can tell they were black so they were naturally gonna commit a crime.
poor kid didnt deserve to die just because his younger brother was black.
i hope the suspect doesnt get the death penality just so he can spend his live in prison thinking about how he really killed his own brother just because its natural to do so becasue hes black and so he can get rapped all his life.
it said on the news they were playing A NON VIOLENT GAME
that is terrible... for the rest of his life his conscience will be screaming "you killed you brother over a video game!" Who knows though? maybe its just started with the video game and the arguement lead elsewhere maybe to something more personal?
sounds like it wasn't the parents, or the videogame (that was just the little spark that started a flame) maybe their friends or lack of friends could have had an impact on them
dude the same thing happened to me a few imes but didnt go that far i got beat up a little but no prob got me a week iss thou lol
damn thats harsh it was only one stab wound theres something fishy about that ive got basic law in school he should have only got 3rd degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon
it wasnt pre meditated hmmmmm
ok i know of someone who beat a kid to death with a tree branch and got first degree and aggrivated assault and he only got 2 years in juvi and he was in a gang war with the guy somethings not right about that
now he is gonna get meat sausage for breakfast, lunch and dinner lol
i absolutely hate the lil brother. poor old brother
i feel sry 4 the older brother.
I had tough times with my older brother wen i was a kid since he use to beat me up. Im 20 now we get along peacfully.
Shame those teens never had that chance.
" I blame sony. They make there console something to argue over. Most people argue when playing PS3. Probable due to lack of games, crap console ect.. :( very sad news indeed."
spoken like a true xbox 360 fan biatch!
damn black people. crazy.
they have been notorious for gruesome murders.