See that guy? That is Daniel Petric, the teenager who shot and killed his mother (Susan Petric, 43) and injured his father after being cut off from Halo 3 back in 2007.
He was sentenced today, MSNBC reports. Judge James Burge sentenced the boy to 23 years to cries of mercy from the boy's surviving father, who stated that Daniel "still does not understand why he did something so terrible."
It's said that Petric played Halo 3 up to 18 hours a day. During the trial, Petric's sister testified that Daniel had become addicted to video games when he became house-bound with a staph infection after a snowboarding injury.
In September 2007, Daniel, then 16, had sneaked out of his bedroom window to purchase the game from a store, against his father's orders. When he returned home, his parents caught him with the game and took it from him. His father, Mark, a minister at New Life Assembly of God in Wellington, put the game in a lock box in a closet where he also kept a 9mm handgun, according to prosecutors.
The prosecution pushed for the maximum sentence of life without parole. The defense's argument was that Daniel was so young and so addicted to the game that he could not be held accountable. Daniel was 16 years old at the time when the murder was commented.
He'll be elegible for parole in 2031.
17/06/09, 04:34
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