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Mar 31, 2004 · THREE years after David Williamson was murdered in North Yorkshire, the police are still searching for his killer. Mr Williamson, 58, was found lying unconscious with a fractured skull in a lane a few hundred yards from his home in Sutton-on-the-Forest, near Easingwold on March 26, 2001.
- 10 New Hyde Park Crime Spree Grand Theft Auto IV
- 9 Nathon Brooks Loss of Game Consoles
- 8 New South Wales Youth Crime Spree Multiple Games
- 7 Devin Moore Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- 6 Daniel Petric Halo 3
- 5 Evan Ramsey Doom
- 4 Nikolas Cruz Call of Duty
- 3 Adam Lanza Multiple
- 2 Columbine High School Doom
- 1 Anders Breivik Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
In New Hyde Park, New York, on June 26, 2008, a group of teenagers went on a crime spree. First, three of them violently mugged a man in a grocery store parking lot. After that, the gangmarched through the streets of New Hyde Park until they encountered a woman in her car. After stealing a pack of cigarettes from the woman, they smash a van using o...
In 2013, 14-year-old Nathon Brooks was grounded and prohibited from playing video gamesafter receiving a detention in school. He decided to do something about it. The night after he was grounded, Brooks acquired his parents’ .22 Smith & Wesson revolver and shot them as they slept. Fortunately, both of his parents survived, and Nathon was sentenced ...
Unlike other entries on this list, this entry does not deal with a specific crime but a multitude of crimes, all of which have been tied to video games by police. In 2012, New South Wales in Australia was dealing with a sharp increase of teenage violent crime. Knife crime, in particular, was of concern to police after teens were killed, injured, an...
Devin Moore is an American murderer who is believed to have been inspired by the game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. On July 7, 2003, Moore was brought into an Alabama police station on suspicion of car theft. At the time, Moore had no criminal record, and he cooperated with the police. After being booked by Officer Arnold Strickland, Moore jumped hi...
Daniel Petric was an American teenager who shot both of his parentsin 2007, killing his mother and severely wounding his father. This was after they confiscated his copy of Halo 3, which was forbidden in the household. Petric used his father’s 9-millimeter handgun to commit the murders. The handgun was locked in the same case as the game, and when ...
Evan Ramsey’s childhood reads like a “How to Make a Killer” manual. When he was seven years old, his father was imprisoned after an armed standoff with police inside a local newspaper office. As a result, his mother became an alcoholic, and Evan and his siblings were sent to various foster homes. Evan was sexually abused in at least one. He was als...
Nikolas Cruz confessed to fatally shooting 17 students and staff members and injuring 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14, 2018. Although not publicly discussed much, there appears to be some evidence of excessive video game use that had been reported in court documents. Die, die, die,” Cruz wrote in a...
Adam Lanza was the man who massacred 27 in the Sandy Hook school shooting on December 14, 2012. Lanza first shot his mother while she was asleep and then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School armed with his mother’s guns and butchered 20 children and six adults. Lanza was described by all who knew him as a socially awkward loner who spent most of h...
This one needs no introduction. On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered Columbine High School and opened fire on students and teachers, killing 12 students and a teacher before turning their guns on themselves. When the carnage was over, many people asked why these two teens had committed such a heinous act. From anger and isolatio...
Anders Breivik is one of the deadliest mass shooters in human history, claiming the lives of 69 young adults at a youth political camp in Norwayon July 22, 2011, after killing another eight by bombing a government building, making the total death toll 77. Breivik was politically motivated by what he believed to be the “Islamization” of Norway at th...
Mar 26, 2002 · James William Payling, aged 18, of Kirkgate, Ripon, has been charged with the murder of David Williamson and is due to appear at York Crown Court for a plea and directions hearing on...
Jan 3, 2002 · DETECTIVES investigating an unsolved North Yorkshire murder caught a drug dealer in their dragnet. Murder squad officers never disclosed the identity of the man, who they held on bail for three...
Jan 17, 2002 · A TEENAGER accused of murdering North Yorkshire man David Williamson broke down and had to be comforted by a police officer when he appeared in court. James William Payling, 18, of Kirkgate, Ripon, had to be helped into the dock at Harrogate Magistrates Court by two security officers.
May 24, 2021 · No matter what desk you’re sitting at, you’ll usually have to deal with murder in some form — and to solve mysteries, you comb through realistically rendered environments for clues, question...
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