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From a FarmVille murder to the Slender Man stabbing, we count down our 10 most shocking
deaths caused by video games.
#10: The FarmVille Murder: 22-year-old Alexandra Tobias just wanted to play FarmVille, but
her son, Dylan Lee Edmondson, wouldn’t stop crying. In a fit of rage, Tobias shook her
3-month-old, smoked a cigarette “to calm down,” and then shook him again. The baby
was taken to the hospital where he soon died as a result of “abusive head trauma.”
At first, Tobias told police her baby hit his head and stopped breathing after “a
dog knocked him off a couch,” but the truth eventually came out. She was sentenced to
50 years in prison.
#9: The Xbox Murder: Tyrone Spellman had been playing on his brother’s Xbox when his 17-month-old
daughter knocked it over. Enraged, Spellman pummeled the little girl so hard her skull
cracked open. Spellman told police he snapped because it wasn’t his Xbox and he didn’t
have the money to pay for a replacement. His daughter died as a result of her terrible
injuries. He was convicted of child endangerment and third-degree murder.
#8: The Slender Man Stabbing: In May of 2014, two young girls lured a classmate into the
woods in a small town in Wisconsin and stabbed her 19 times. Why? The girls believed the
horror game character Slender Man would bring harm to them and their families if they didn’t
murder their friend. They had been planning the attack for months. The victim managed
to crawl out of the woods to get help and later recovered from her injuries. Though
nobody died, death had definitely been the goal.
#7: The Grand Theft Auto Shooting: After he was brought to a police station on suspicion
of driving a stolen car, Devin Moore apparently grabbed a gun that belonged to an officer,
shot three people, and escaped in a patrol car. At the time of his apprehension, Thompson
allegedly said, “Life is a video game. You’ve got to die sometime.” Moore claimed Grand
Theft Auto made him kill the innocent police department employees. He was convicted of
capital murder.
#6: The Game Boy Advance Drowning: In 2005, Gregg J. Kleinmark made a deadly and costly
mistake. After putting fraternal twins Drew and Bryn in a bathtub filled with water, Kleinmark
left the room for 30 minutes so he could play on his Game Boy Advance. When he returned,
he discovered his children had perished. The man plead guilty to two counts of involuntary
manslaughter.
#5: The Everquest Suicide: When 21-year-old Shawn Woolley committed suicide in 2002, his
mother was devastated, but she believed she knew what pushed him over the edge. According
to her, Woolley had been addicted to Everquest and was deeply hurt when a player named “iluvyou”
rejected him. John Smedley, one of the game’s creators, claimed that a “form of entertainment”
couldn’t possibly be responsible. Debate over this tragic event continues to this day.
#4: The Legend of Mir III Murder: Qui Chengwei didn’t like it when a fellow gamer named
Zhu Caoyuan sold a “cyber-weapon” that Qui had loaned to him to use in the online
game Legend of Mir III. Because the weapon wasn’t real property, Qui couldn’t get
the police involved in its retrieval. Angered by this betrayal, he went to Zhu’s home
and stabbed him, killing the man instantly. He turned himself in two hours later.
#3: The Internet Café Tragedy: In 2011, an unnamed 33-year-old man died after playing
online games for 650 hours straight . The Chinese player lived only on instant noodles
and hadn’t left his spot in the café to get a proper amount of rest. Experts claimed
he died as a result of malnutrition.
#2: The Wii Accident: In 2007, a radio station in Sacramento, California decided to hold
what they called a “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” contest. In order to win the video
game console, a contestant had to hold their bladder the longest after drinking a significant
amount of water. Despite warnings that this was dangerous, the station went ahead with
it, anyway. A young mother named Jennifer Strange entered, but dropped out after getting
sick. She died six hours later from water intoxication. A wrongful death lawsuit was
soon filed.
#1: The Wii Fit Incident: Englishman Tim Eves was in the middle of playing Wii Fit when
he “suddenly keeled over” in front of his girlfriend. By the time he was taken to
the hospital, there was nothing doctors could do. Medical professionals believed Eves was
a victim of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, or SADS. People with this condition risk cardiac
arrest when they exercise. It’s not known if any legal action was taken.
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