Xbox-related murder gets 19-year-old two life sentences

If you find yourself thinking “Man, I’d kill for an Xbox” and you’re literally willing to go through with it, hold that thought before you do something stupid. A 19-year-old did just that, and he’ll now spend the rest of his days behind bars.

If you find yourself thinking “Man, I’d kill for an Xbox” and you’re literally willing to go through with it, hold that thought before you do something stupid. A 19-year-old did just that, and he’ll now spend the rest of his days behind bars.

In January 2009, Kyle Sebastian Stott killed 22-year-old Jason Holley and hid the body in a ravine to cover his tracks. Stott was found guilty of first-degree murder, and robbery of an at-risk adult (the victim was reportedly a developmentally-disabled man), among others. For that, he got two life sentences without the possibility of parole, plus an extra 35 years for aggravated robbery.

“He trusted you. He would have given you anything, and he did,” Judge Deborah Grohs said of Stott. “You could have taken the Xbox and he never would have told anybody. … He was trying to be normal, and be a buddy, or one of the guys.”

Judge Grohs justifies the weight of the sentence with the fact that Stott was proven to have committed the murder “for sport”, with “bragging rights” as part of the motive. “It was absolutely senseless. It’s unimaginable, and it’s unexplainable,” she said.

The Gazette [via Kotaku]