So-called 'Halo killer' gets 23 to life

Currently, the tragic case of the main vehicle is called a "Halo Killer" has come to a resolution of this kind. According to reports from the local Fox TV affiliate WJW-TV, an Ohio judge has punished 17 years old Daniel Petric to 23 years to life for his death Shooting 43 year mother in October 2007. Petric has been convicted of crimes in Jan, but spared the death penalty because he age.Both Petric's defense lawyers and prosecutors accused of crimes that young people from "dependency" of Halo 3 The Game. His lawyers have argued that the youth have become obsessed with The Game after playing a while still incapacitated for months after the injury. Application of insanity defense, saying that he will make food and sleep to play The Game for up to 18 hours a day, create a mind in which he does not think that death is permanent.

"Playing video games and the fact that someone blinded image in this case, it melted," the defense argued the law James kersey reported. "He does not have the mind during this process. During this period, he was blinded to the death of her parents, who may never return."

Petric, when parents limit the time he began to play The Game, he became desperate. According to the Associated Press in January, young people who planned the murder for months before entering the bedroom, her parents and they both shot in the head. Petric was reported saying: "Close your eyes, I have a surprise for you," before the pull the trigger, and then change the crime scene to look like murder-suicide. He then fled with The Game.

"His addiction is very strong, has been running rampant in the tired, exhausted young, that someone or something that he is playing games and there is no way that he is in danger," said kersey country Petric d 'mind during the murder.

Petric's 45 years old father, a local minister, survived the wound and has supported the court that is in the process. Judge James Bürge father has passed the pleas for leniency in the sentence, that will make young Petric eligible for parole in the year 2032. Pinner Bürge many blame for the game itself, who want to declare his game addiction deepened.

"I believe that if there is something like violent video games, I do not know Daniel Petric," said the judge.