A different article I read earlier (sorry, it’s too early and I’m too lazy to go looking for it) painted this in a slightly different light btw.
The kid didn’t kill his dad because he was mad he got his Switch taken away. He got his Switch taken away, snuck into his parents room to go looking for it, found the gun instead, and started playing with it. Then he accidentally shot his dad with it.
That is a MUCH different story than “psychopathic child murders his father over a video game”. But hey, anything to avoid a headline that insinuates guns themselves are the problem.
A different article I read earlier (sorry, it’s too early and I’m too lazy to go looking for it) painted this in a slightly different light btw.
The kid didn’t kill his dad because he was mad he got his Switch taken away. He got his Switch taken away, snuck into his parents room to go looking for it, found the gun instead, and started playing with it. Then he accidentally shot his dad with it.
That is a MUCH different story than “psychopathic child murders his father over a video game”. But hey, anything to avoid a headline that insinuates guns themselves are the problem.
Per other reports, he found the key, took the key to the safe, took the gun, loaded it, then aimed and fired it. Hard to do all that by accident.