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This is the stuff urban legends and horror movies are made of: four young hobos in Florida, one with a hilarious tanline, murdered a house full of defenseless people in order to recover an Xbox taken from their illegal squat:
That enraged Victorino and he enlisted the other three suspects to help him carry out the attacks, prosecutors say. A Wal-Mart clerk has told investigators the four men joked about bashing people to death while shopping for baseball bats two days before the slayings.
The victims were beaten to death and then stabbed, probably "just to make sure". Two small dogs at the house were also murdered. The worst part? It wasn't even a 360.
The trial has come to be known as "The Xbox Murders" and as Florida news site News4Jax reports, jurors are currently being chosen from a pool of 1,000.
The actual murders occurred two years ago, but I figured it was worth a mention because we may soon hear, particularly from the defense team, that "video games made them do it." It is notable that the news site I quoted says absolutely nothing about Xbox in this article except that it was the key item in the case. No damning, anti-games nonsense. Just clean reporting.
Thanks for the tip, Cliff.
Read more [News4Jax]
