12-year-old boy shot 13-year-old because he won a video game

A 12 year old boy in Memphis, United States, was accused of shooting his 13-year-old friend after get angry while playing video games.

According to a local press article, another 18-year-old was involved in the events and he is currently under arrest for lying to the police about the shooting.

The 18-year-old allegedly said the shot at the 13-year-old boy came from a vehicle passing in the street, but the authorities found loopholes in this alibi and eventually obtained a confession from Keshun Tuggle – the young man arrested – who He admitted to setting up the crime scene, throwing the gun away and covering the boy who shot his friend with the gun Tuggle himself allegedly had.

The 13-year-old boy who was shot was taken to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee) in critical condition. Tuggle was charged with providing a firearm to a minor, contributing to a minor’s delinquency, and tampering with or fabricating evidence.

This case is the second incident involving minors and firearms reported in the United States this week, after being reported a 14-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy in Florida who allegedly fled a group home, forced their way into another house where they found several weapons and opened fire on police.

According to an affidavit in the case, the boy told investigators that when they saw police outside, the girl said: “I will use it like in GTA”, in reference to the video game Grand Theft Auto.

The police shot the girl in the arm and she is expected to recover. while the child was unharmed. No officer was injured in the shooting.

“I do not know what to say”, Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said. “How did we go wrong so that 12 and 14 year olds think it’s okay to confront law enforcement?”

These cases reopened a long-standing debate in the United States on the the influence of video games with high doses of violence and explicit content on young people.

Politicians like Donald Trump have used this narrative to explain, for example, the shootings that took place in some schools in the United States. Something that was rejected several times by the investigators who were in charge of the files.

In 2011, the Supreme Court rejected an allegation that violent video games promote violence in real life. Judge Antonin Scalia wrote: “Psychological studies that claim to show a link between exposure to violent video games and harmful effects on children do not prove that such exposure causes minors to act aggressively.”

“Any effect shown is weak and indistinguishable from effects produced by other means”, added.

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