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Killing Homeless Is Like A "Violent Video Game"

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CNN has a sad piece up on a teen attacks against the homeless. Nathan Moore and his friends Luis Oyola and Andrew Ihrcke savagely beat 49 year-old homeless man Rex Baum. They threw rocks and a barbecue grill at Baum and punched and kicked him. They then hit the man with a baseball bat and a pipe before smearing feces on Baum's face and cutting him to "see if he was alive." The teens then went to McDonald's and bragged about this murder before police picked them up. Quoting CNN:

"Ihrcke told police that killing 'the bum' reminded him of playing a violent video game, a police report shows."

Tragic. Stupid. And unnecessary.

Homeless Attacks [CNN via The Last Boss]

10:00 PM on Tue Feb 20 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
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