PA Boys kills brother over video game...

They are already trying to regulate it now!

how so?

He obviously has anger issues... but I bet at 13 he doesn't understand what he's done while in a rage.. .. I'm sure he loved his brother. Just awful....


I dont care how angry you are. When I was 13 I got mad at my older brother over video games before. But we put on boxing gloves when we had a dispute. We NEVER thought of stabbing the other. And this will now haunt and torrment him for the rest of his life. I hope he gets life in jail.

life in jail? Like i said, he is young and obviously couldn't control your emotions. That is why little kids cry. Everyone feels upset at times but children cry when that happens until they can control their emotions. He is going to have to live with this regardless. Life in jail is out of the question and i don't think any reasonable court would have that not only due to age but the fact that this was not planned out. Its second degree and he should be sent to juvy for a few years and see anger specialists. That is reform. That is what the system is meant to do.

i am speecless. now another thing the government will want to regulate

Yeah. Jack Thompson is going to have a field day with this. It's obviously the video games that turned him into a murdering little shit. He was probably an honor student before the hellspawned Xbox showed up...

life in jail? Like i said, he is young and obviously couldn't control your emotions. That is why little kids cry. Everyone feels upset at times but children cry when that happens until they can control their emotions. He is going to have to live with this regardless. Life in jail is out of the question and i don't think any reasonable court would have that not only due to age but the fact that this was not planned out. Its second degree and he should be sent to juvy for a few years and see anger specialists. That is reform. That is what the system is meant to do.


13 is not a little kid. It is young but 13 years is enough time for parents to teach right or wrong. In the state of GA if he was there, he would be charged as an adult no questions asked. He is charged with 1st degree murder, which carries the life in jail penalty. And I have read nowhere that he is remorseful for what he did. He just told the cops "I just stabbed my brother." WTF!!! Life in jail is fitting for this act of violence. We need to stop looking at age a such a big factor. That is a huge problem in the US. We want to change the meaning of age so much.

We really need to sit down as a country and determine "how old is 13 really?"

Life in jail is out of the question and i don't think any reasonable court would have that not only due to age but the fact that this was not planned out. Its second degree and he should be sent to juvy for a few years and see anger specialists. That is reform. That is what the system is meant to do.

That's exactly why the system doesn't work. This kid is 13, which is 8th-9th grade for most people. Are you telling me that a high school freshman, or soon to be freshman should be off the hook for friggin murder, because he "can't control his emotions"? Most murders happen because someone lost control of their emotions. If that was a legitimate excuse, nobody would be in jail for murder.

And a few years in juvy is ridiculous for the severity of the crime. I personally think he should fry, but that won't happen. He might get sentenced to life if he's tried as an adult, but he'll probably only serve 7-10 years... :banghead:

lets legalize weed, when your high (so i heard) you to relax to think about killing anything except..................... :spank:

FTA: "[Ricks] faces charges of third-degree murder, assault, recklessly endangering another person and possession of instruments of crime."

I am speechless. I could never consider killing another human being, especially a family member.

This is unbelievable. When I was thirteen my older Brother and I would fight almost ever day after school over stupid stuff like a lot of brothers do. Things like who was in control of the TV or who got to eat the last burrito ect ect. I must say we did some pretty messed up things to each other. But I never once thought I should stab him. I knew better then that in preschool! This kid should be locked up for a long time. I can almost grantee that when he gets out someone else is going to be seriously hurt by him. The kid has some real serious issue and being 13 is no defense in my book.

His neglectful parents should serve the same sentence. If you can't raise a better kid than that you need to think seriously about using contraceptive measures.
This reminds of the story a year or so ago about the boy that beat another kid with a baseball bat because he was getting razzed for losing a baseball game.

Effin pathetic parenting!