GamePolitics recently reported some information about the case involving two teenagers beheading someone and setting their body on fire. Apparently his attorneys plan to claim that Jean Pierre Orlewicz was merely imitating Eidos’ Hitman when he committed the horrible crime. Here is the information from the video report that CNN’s Jean Casarez did.
We’ve heard some testimony today that’s very interesting… Before the killing took place… J.P. Orlewicz, the defendant, used to say, †I want to commit a crime… and not get caught and be able to get away with it… So now we see the mindset of a young man that is fixated on doing harm, according to the prosecution witnesses. Fixated on committing a crime… Because you wonder how something like this can happen…
How did the defense deal with that? They dealt with it with a video game called Hitman that he used to watch, and it was a video game where you got impressions that you would kill somebody, hit them from their back side where they were not aware that they were being killed. And, so the defense is probably going to focus on that there was not a true intent to commit a crime, just a fixation with this video game.
Videogames is not only being blamed for the crime, but being used as an excuse and a scapegoat to show that the the accused wasn’t meaning to do any harm but the videogame caused him to do it.
Source: Video Games Made Me Do It: Defendant in Beheading Trial Blames Hitman
