10 Disturbing Tales Of Video Game Obsession

3. Father Kills Young Daughter For Breaking Xbox

In a truly sickening case of gaming rage, a gamer pummelled his toddler daughter to death after she accidentally broke the Xbox he was playing on. She had been amusing herself with the cables coming out of the console, before accidentally pulling the unit off the shelf it was occupying. "The only reason I snapped 'cause I thought she broke my brother's $600 Xbox and I don't have any money to pay him back," claimed offender Tyrone Spellman. An autopsy of his daughter revealed that her skull had been shattered by repeated blows to the head. Tyrone had been playing Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon before the attack. Prosecutor James Berardinelli claimed that the attack was carried out with "a wickedness of disposition, a hardness of heart and extreme indifference."
 
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