Teen kills mom, himself after arguing over violent computer games

A 15-year-old boy hanged himself after killing his mother following an argument over his playing violent computer games, South Korean police said.

The boy strangled his mother before killing himself at their home in Busan, the Associated Press reported.

South Korea is one of the most wired nations in the world, with more than 90 percent of its homes having broadband Internet access, the AP reported.

-- Lance Murray

Comments

[RevJL]

Someone should write a video game that challenges young people to run a corporation and then have a way to reward them with $$$$$ for doing a good job ...... seems like violent video games show people how to kill without conscience and now they do that pretty well ...... my 2 cents

[JiveKata]

And it's because of games like Pac-Man, that teach our children to endlessly gorge themselves, that we have an obesity epidemic in this country.

[Alberto Knox]

Video games don't kill people. Kids who play video games kill people. If we outlaw video games, only BitTorrent will have video games.

[Baracuda]

The teen, who is described as quiet and sweet by those who know him told the 911 operator that he had been planning on killing for awhile and that the murder of his mother