{"id":1352,"date":"2009-01-13T16:14:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T08:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2009-01-13T16:14:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T08:14:36","slug":"teen-killed-mom-over-xbox-360-halo-3-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/13\/teen-killed-mom-over-xbox-360-halo-3-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Killed Mom Over Xbox 360 Halo 3 Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is way beyond obsession. A teenager, Daniel Petric, 17, killed his Mom and wounded his dad over the game, Halo 3 for Xbox 360.<\/p>\n<p>Due to his obsession with the game, his father stopped him from playing Halo 3. However, instead of stopping, he plotted to killed both his parents.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Tried as an adult, Petric faces a maximum possible penalty of life in prison without parole.<\/p>\n<p>From the report,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the night of the shooting, Petric used his father&#8217;s key to open a lockbox and remove a 9 mm handgun and the game.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Petric testified that his son came into the room and asked: &#8216;Would you guys close your eyes? I have a surprise for you.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He testified that he expected a pleasant surprise. Then his head went numb from the gunshot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Petric fled the scene with only one thing. That is his Halo 3 game. This is gruesome murder to his parents. His father survived the gunshot and was at the courtroom when he was trialed and appeared to have forgiven him.<\/p>\n<p>This is beyond my imagination that an obsession with a game could lead to the gruesome murder of his own parents.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/Breaking%2BNews\/World\/Story\/STIStory_325558.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story here.<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>[ad#boxlist]<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/Breaking%2BNews\/World\/Story\/STIStory_325558.html\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is way beyond obsession. A teenager, Daniel Petric, 17, killed his Mom and wounded his dad over the game, Halo 3 for Xbox 360. Due to his obsession with the game, his father stopped him from playing Halo 3. However, instead of stopping, he plotted to killed both his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58,4,29,14],"tags":[452,453,56,206],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game","category-information","category-other-stuff","category-techie","tag-halo-3","tag-halo3","tag-xbox-360","tag-xbox360"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8YKZ-lO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}