Xbox rage child killer convicted of third-degree murder

[wraggster]

Tyrone Spellman was found guilty yesterday of third-degree murder for killing his 17-month-old daughter in 2006 after she knocked over his Xbox. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the jury reached the verdict after eight hours, adding that Spellman faces 23.5 to 47 years in prison. He has three prior drug convictions.

Apparently, after impulsively beating his daughter to death, Spellman propped the dead child by some barbells in order to mask the death as an accident in the eyes of arriving EMTs. In a post-verdict conversation, Prosecutor James Berardinelli was told by the forewoman that the jury believed Spellman acted "in a rage" but didn't mean to kill the child.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/30/xb...degree-murder/

[skullfireswords]

over an xbox V_V

sad...

[pibs]

what a moron, he deserves life in prison for killing an innocent child.

[VampDude]

I remember seeing the threads about that guy here back in 2006.

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=35858

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46094

[JKKDARK]

I hope it wasn't because an Xbox 1

[VampDude]

I hope it wasn't because an Xbox 1

He was playing "Ghost Recon" which the console could've been either an Xbox or Xbox 360 (news stories don't always say Xbox1 or Xbox360).

[cal360]

There should of been no reason for him to act the way he did though. Life in prison is all he deserves. He's taken am innocent child's life just because he was angry, if everyone lashed out when they were angry everyone would be dead.