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He takes fatal OD as Internet pals watch
Chatroom vultures egged him to pop more Rx pills
Exclusive: "I told u I was hardcore." Those were the last coherent words Brandon Vedas, 21, typed into the computer in his Phoenix bedroom as he showed off for Internet pals watching on a Web cam by swallowing more and more prescription drugs.
Vedas died online as a crowd of virtual onlookers egged him to "eat more!" A chilling record of the Jan. 12 chat reads like an Internet version of the notorious 1964 Kew Gardens, Queens, stabbing of Kitty Genovese as her neighbors watched from their windows.
"It seems like the group mentality really contributed to it," said his brother, calling the transcript "disgusting." "These people treat it like somehow it's not the real world," he said. "They forget it's not just words on a screen."
Chatroom vultures egged him to pop more Rx pills
Exclusive: "I told u I was hardcore." Those were the last coherent words Brandon Vedas, 21, typed into the computer in his Phoenix bedroom as he showed off for Internet pals watching on a Web cam by swallowing more and more prescription drugs.
Vedas died online as a crowd of virtual onlookers egged him to "eat more!" A chilling record of the Jan. 12 chat reads like an Internet version of the notorious 1964 Kew Gardens, Queens, stabbing of Kitty Genovese as her neighbors watched from their windows.
"It seems like the group mentality really contributed to it," said his brother, calling the transcript "disgusting." "These people treat it like somehow it's not the real world," he said. "They forget it's not just words on a screen."
