Disgruntled XBox gamers murder 6 people in Florida

Clearly several young men in Florida never heard the phrase it is just a game.

Because in 2004, the trio allegedly killed 6 people in premeditated attacks in retaliation for something that happened to one an Xbox owned by one of the defendants.

The accused killers are:

• Troy Victorino, 29
• Michael Salas, 20
• Jerone Hunter, 20

Most of the victims, ages 17-34, worked together at a Burger King.

My brothers worked a stint at Burger King in their teens. If someone had killed them over a video game - a toy - I would have been stunned.

Troy Victorino, led the violence in revenge because one of the victims had cleared Victorino's Xbox video game system and some clothing out of her grandparents' vacant home, where he had been temporarily living.

Of all the things the accused could have done as an aggrieved Xbox owner, murder should have been off the bottom of a very long list of possible responses.

Now, in real life, if the jury comes back and says YOU LOSE they could face the death penalty. If that is their sentence, then it really is GAME OVER for them.

It really is just a game. In five years, that particular Xbox will be just another obsolete electronic toy.

Witness won't testify at Xbox murder trial - Yahoo! News:

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - The key prosecution witness in the deaths of six people in what prosecutors say was a dispute over a video game system claimed innocence Thursday and refused to testify.

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