Utah gunman did play video games
Recently, we reported police findings on the case of Sulejman Talovic, an 18-year-old Bosnian refugee who walked into the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, Utah and went shooting into the crowd, killing five and wounding four. The police never found any evidence that violent video games may have influenced Talovic. In fact, they never even found any computer game or video game system in Talovic’s home.
But now, another lead surfaced: Talovic’s friend, Enes Kadic (left pic), claims that his friend Sulejman did play computer games. Kadic, who went to seventh grade with Talovic, said that “combat games, fighting games, Super Mario…” are the sort of games that Talovic liked to play. Talovic also liked to watch movies with violence, his friend said. “He liked watching fighting movies. He liked watching those fist-fighting movies and movies where they shoot each other. He liked watching those type of movies,” he added.
According to Kadic, Talovic was quiet and not very talkative. He kept mostly to himself and didn’t leave his house after school. At least once a week, though, Kadic would convince his shy friend to watch movies at his house or play video games at Talovic’s house.
This new evidence leaves us all out in the open. Still, the fact that Talovic did play computer games is a poor indication that Talovic was convinced to shoot people because of gaming influence. His eight-grade math teacher at Hillside Intermediate School, Virginia Lee, said that Talovic was just a young man who wanted to be social, to belong.
Talovic’s friend Kadic says that he still cannot believe it was his friend who did the shooting claiming that “it’s pretty crazy to me he did that. He’s the last person on Earth I thought would do that.” Talovic may have been any one of us, and we do feel sorry for his victims.
The gunman might have had his reasons for going postal that day, yet must we always point blame on the gaming industry? After all, we’ve never heard of anybody else going on a shooting rampage after a round of playing Super Mario…
Via Deseretnews.com
Recently, we reported police findings on the case of Sulejman Talovic, an 18-year-old Bosnian refugee who walked into the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, Utah and went shooting into the crowd, killing five and wounding four. The police never found any evidence that violent video games may have influenced Talovic. In fact, they never even found any computer game or video game system in Talovic’s home.
But now, another lead surfaced: Talovic’s friend, Enes Kadic (left pic), claims that his friend Sulejman did play computer games. Kadic, who went to seventh grade with Talovic, said that “combat games, fighting games, Super Mario…” are the sort of games that Talovic liked to play. Talovic also liked to watch movies with violence, his friend said. “He liked watching fighting movies. He liked watching those fist-fighting movies and movies where they shoot each other. He liked watching those type of movies,” he added.
According to Kadic, Talovic was quiet and not very talkative. He kept mostly to himself and didn’t leave his house after school. At least once a week, though, Kadic would convince his shy friend to watch movies at his house or play video games at Talovic’s house.
This new evidence leaves us all out in the open. Still, the fact that Talovic did play computer games is a poor indication that Talovic was convinced to shoot people because of gaming influence. His eight-grade math teacher at Hillside Intermediate School, Virginia Lee, said that Talovic was just a young man who wanted to be social, to belong.
Talovic’s friend Kadic says that he still cannot believe it was his friend who did the shooting claiming that “it’s pretty crazy to me he did that. He’s the last person on Earth I thought would do that.” Talovic may have been any one of us, and we do feel sorry for his victims.
The gunman might have had his reasons for going postal that day, yet must we always point blame on the gaming industry? After all, we’ve never heard of anybody else going on a shooting rampage after a round of playing Super Mario…
Via Deseretnews.com
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