A recently unsealed search warrant shows Tooele police believe the use of violent video games could have played a role in allegedly influencing a child to commi
Warrants unsealed in a Tooele homicide case allege a 9-year-old shot his father and hacked him using a hatchet on Feb. 16, 2024. shows Tooele police believe the use of violent video games could have played a role in allegedly influencing a child to commit homicide.On Feb. 16, police say the child s hot his father in the back of the head with a 9-milimeter handgun then attacked him with a tomahawk, both weapons that they say are used in the videogame Modern Warfare: Warzone.
The documents state that the gruesome and specific nature of the crime are inconsistent with the child’s age based on similarly aged children who are known to have committed homicide, thus making the seizure of both devices necessary to shed light on why the weapons were used in the homicide. “If we still have children in elementary school, junior high, high school using violence to get their way, those are the kids I would worry about spending too much time playing violent games,” he said.
Evershed said its rare to see, but children can be charged with anything an adult can be charged with, including murder.
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