11 Weird Deaths Related to Gaming: Page 6 of 11

Gaming and tragedy
Gaming and tragedy


6. Xbox user turns child killer

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It's a great platform, sure... it's not worth someone's life, though.

Sometimes, it doesn’t matter what game you play – or that you’re even a gamer – at all. If you’ve got violent tendencies, severe anger management issues, and a couple of dozen loose screws, you’re a danger to yourself and to others.

In 2006, gaming aficionado Tyrone Spellman was playing with his Xbox when his 17-month-old daughter, Aliyiah, accidentally yanked the machine’s cords out of their sockets. The Xbox fell and broke.

Spellman went postal on Aliyiah, pummeling her skull until it cracked in not one, but several places. As you can guess, the poor little girl didn’t make it. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Spellman positioned her body in the proximity of a barbell to make it appear as if she had had an accident.

Spellman fooled no one, however, and was sentenced to 47 years in jail for the deed.



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