Disaster Boy, 9, kills sister, 13, over controller - He was tired of being Player-2

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Video console death: US boy, 9, 'kills sister, 13, over controller'

A 13-year-old girl in Mississippi has died after allegedly being shot by her nine-year-old brother over a video game, police say.

They said the boy grabbed a gun on Saturday afternoon after his sister would not give up the controller.

He allegedly shot her from behind, and the bullet entered her brain.

A local sheriff announced on Sunday that the teen had died of her injuries in a Memphis hospital. It was unclear how the boy obtained the gun.

It is also unclear what consequences the nine-year-old will face.

"He's just nine," Monroe County Sheriff Cecil Cantrell told the Clarion Ledger.

"I assume he's seen this on video games or TV. I don't know if he knew exactly what this would do. I can't answer that. I do know it's a tragedy."

The children's mother was in another room, feeding other children lunch at the time of the incident.

Police are still investigating the circumstances of the shooting, including how the weapon - a .25 calibre handgun - was accessed.

"This is all new ground for us, we've never dealt with a kid shooting a kid at age nine," Sheriff Cantrell told local press.
 
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The mother was in another room, did she just do nothing while she was feeding her other kids? No screaming "Knock it off or I'm kicking you off!" or anything similar? She couldn't have been that oblivious.

God, everything about this story angers and saddens me. Sibling squabbles over taking turns are completely normal with the occasional hitting and slapping (as young children, that sort of violence is expected to stop by the time the child's of school age), but there is nothing normal about a sibling killing another over something so trivial as wanting to be player one. We have long surpassed caveman times where sibling rivalry over a fucking meal may have ended up with someone dead.

No one deserves to be haunted by this shit, but this family reaped what they sowed for being so fucking incompetent. There's other children in the house who'll have to live with this memory, they're going to follow in their brother's footsteps somewhere down the line if they don't immediately get some kind of therapy.
 
Reynard said:
I have a few things to say, and I know one of them might be a bit spergy because gun nut shit, but whatever. You've been warned.

First off, if a child gets a real gun, and hasn't been taught not to fucking touch them without supervision and if they're specifically allowed to (kids still shouldn't have real guns), and the fact that a gun was just that easy for the kid to access without the parents knowing is the irresponsibility that makes not just gun owners, but parents as a whole. Not only does it make firearms owners look terrible because they weren't stored in a secure location that kids can't access, but the parents didn't even seem to bother to teach the kid the difference between violence in reality versus violence in fiction Now, I'm assuming there, they might have and this kid is just a sociopath in the making, but it also just reinforces the point that their guns weren't stored properly, and this is why you have to do that. Now, if by some off chance everything was done correctly and this still happened, I would deem it up to this child being essentially a movie villain with how smart he must be to access locked up weapons, but something called common sense tells me otherwise. Also, I'v never heard of a genius from Mississippi, and I don't expect to.

Secondly, they still make .25 ACP? I thought that round died when they stopped making vest pistols and other ridiculously small handguns. Has it made a resurgence with the concealed carry laws that have come about, or were these people in possession of a very early 20th century vest pistol that's worth a ton of money due to its collector's status?
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The girl's name was Dijonae. Odds are gun safety wasn't part of the kids' upbringing.
 
Well, another thing is that some children at his age DO have trouble differentiating fake violence from real violence, especially if they have really shitty parents. Like death as a concept is really difficult and if he was playing games he'd expect her to 'respawn'. Or his dad was super drunk and did something like this:


"YO SHORTY, YOU AND YOUR SISTER ARE LITERALLY IMMORTAL, METAPHORICALLY BLAST THAT BITCH FOR YO' CONTROLLER, SHE WILL RESPAWN"

*later in court*

"Sorry your honor, I did not know what literally or metaphorically meant"
 
Reynard said:
I have a few things to say, and I know one of them might be a bit spergy because gun nut shit, but whatever. You've been warned.

First off, if a child gets a real gun, and hasn't been taught not to fucking touch them without supervision and if they're specifically allowed to (kids still shouldn't have real guns), and the fact that a gun was just that easy for the kid to access without the parents knowing is the irresponsibility that makes not just gun owners, but parents as a whole. Not only does it make firearms owners look terrible because they weren't stored in a secure location that kids can't access, but the parents didn't even seem to bother to teach the kid the difference between violence in reality versus violence in fiction Now, I'm assuming there, they might have and this kid is just a sociopath in the making, but it also just reinforces the point that their guns weren't stored properly, and this is why you have to do that. Now, if by some off chance everything was done correctly and this still happened, I would deem it up to this child being essentially a movie villain with how smart he must be to access locked up weapons, but something called common sense tells me otherwise. Also, I'v never heard of a genius from Mississippi, and I don't expect to.

Secondly, they still make .25 ACP? I thought that round died when they stopped making vest pistols and other ridiculously small handguns. Has it made a resurgence with the concealed carry laws that have come about, or were these people in possession of a very early 20th century vest pistol that's worth a ton of money due to its collector's status?
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My workplace is in the middle of gang territory where nightly shootings occur every so often, and I have found .25 ACP casings in the parking lot that the police forensics sweeps miss. I suspect the gang gunmen are using such a low power cartridge for homemade zip guns or really old Saturday night specials.
 
I'm an oldest child and, looking back in retrospect with the benefit of my present wisdom and maturity, I now realize that I probably deserved to be murdered by my younger brother because I always made him use the Mad Catz controllers.
 
Aren't the sheriff's comments a bit strange? Like he's trying to distance himself from any type of accusation that this kid had access to a gun he shouldn't have and killed his sister with it, and likely the issue is that this was not a house of these "responsible gun owners" we hear about?

It's like soon enough we'll be hearing about people who had the back of their head blown off "but we really don't know what happened. I mean, maybe TV of vidya games? It's a tragedy though." with zero mention of guns period.
 
millais said:
My workplace is in the middle of gang territory where nightly shootings occur every so often, and I have found .25 ACP casings in the parking lot that the police forensics sweeps miss. I suspect the gang gunmen are using such a low power cartridge for homemade zip guns or really old Saturday night specials.
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Jimenez Arms (previously Jennings and Bryco) still makes some really lousy and cheap .25 pocket pistols, they're popular with hood rats due to their disposability. Pretty sure the kid used one.
 
Is there a particular reason why parents are very rarely blamed for these kinds of things happening? Is it a social taboo not to publicly shame shitty parents and instead we just blame guns and video games?

Because if a 9 year old was able to grab a gun and shoot his sister without hesitation, something is CLEARLY wrong in the household.
 
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