The Last Game: 5 SHOCKING Incidents When People Died Playing Video Games
Playing video games is so exciting but sometimes they turned out with fatalities in real life. Here is the list of incidents that ended people real death while or after playing.
Mississippi boy killed his sister
A 9-year-old boy shot his 13-year-old sister to death with parent’s gun after the two got into an argument over a video game controller.
The incident occurred in rural Monroe County, Mississippi, as the children’s mother was preparing lunch in the kitchen, the county sheriff said.
“He wanted the controller, and I guess he knew where to find the gun,” Sheriff Cecil Cantrell told CNN.
Source:Â Pixabay
Deadly marathon
Brian “Poshybrid” Vigneault, a 35-year-old gamer spent several days live-streaming himself playing the game World of Tanks for 20-plus hours straight.
Brian got up to smoke a cigarette and never returned.
Source: The Sun
3-day online gaming in Taiwan
A 32-year-old man, surnamed Hsieh, died from cardiac failure in an Internet cafe in Taiwan after a marathon three-day gaming binge.
Source:Â Stringer / Reuters
Pokémon Go victim
Pokémon Go became a hype as it was the first AR game that took gamers to the streets, searching for pokemon.
Calvin Riley, a young college student and athlete, was shot in the chest in Aquatic Park in San Francisco while playing as he crossed the private property illegally. His killer has still not been found.
Teen from Russia Republic of Bashkortostan
The 17-year-old had broken his leg and was playing game Defence of the Ancients almost continuously more than three weeks.
The teen, known only as Rustam, only stopped to sleep and eat.
Doctors believe he could have died from the second class syndrome, thrombosis from not moving around, as on a cramped long haul flight.
Source:Â australscope
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