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Steal an XBOX, get beaten to death

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My xbox got stolen in the dorms once. Oh - and my ps2. I even knew who did it. I just called the cops and bought a new one. hmm
 
Did any of you actually read the article? The one I read said that the guy that arranged the beating was squatting in a vacant house owned by the grandparents of one of the victims. He had the cops called on him and his buddies by one of the victims when he was discovered squatting there with some other people.

Apparently the X-Box and clothes weren't stolen, either. They were boxed up after being found in the house where they had been squatting, and were still in the house where the suspect and his friends had been staying illegally. So don't go off on your retarded "beat the thieves do death" tangents, if you can't even be bothered to read what actually happened.
 
Here's an updated story that says what really happened. Sickening. I hope those four losers are all fried.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040809/ap_on_re_us/bodies_found&cid=519&ncid=716

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A dispute over clothes and a video game system between a young woman and a squatter in her grandparents' house apparently sparked the vicious beating and stabbing murders of six people whose bodies were found late last week in a blood-spattered home, police said.

Troy Victorino, 27, Robert Cannon, 18, Jerone Hunter, 18 and Michael Salas, 18, are charged with first-degree murder and armed burglary. The teens confessed shortly after they were arrested Saturday, authorities said. All four were jailed in Daytona Beach while awaiting bail hearings Monday.

Police said the attack was the brutal culmination of an argument between Victorino, an ex-convict, and one of the victims, who is believed to be Erin Belanger, 22. She was singled out for a beating so vicious that even dental records were useless in trying to identify her.

Belanger's grandparents, from Maine, own a winter home in Deltona, between Orlando and Daytona Beach, which was supposed to be vacant this summer, but police said Victorino and other squatters used it in July as a party spot.

Joe Abshire, Belanger's brother-in-law, said she had talked to him last Sunday about heading to the vacant house to go swimming one day and finding about six people living there. The squatters were kicked out, but the Xbox (news - web sites) video game system and clothes were left behind. Belanger took the items back to the three-bedroom rental home she shared with friends.

Over the next days, deputies were called to the grandparents' house six times. The victims also reported a tire-slashing at their home and a threat.

The squatters warned Belanger that "they were going to come back there and beat her with a baseball bat when she was sleeping," Abshire told The Sun of Lowell, Mass., for Sunday editions.

All four suspects were armed with aluminum bats when Victorino kicked in the locked front door, according to arrest records. The group, who wore black clothes and had scarves on their faces, grabbed knives inside and attacked victims in different rooms of the three-bedroom house, authorities said.

The victims, some of whom were sleeping, did not put up a fight or try to escape, Sheriff Ben Johnson (news - web sites) said. All had been stabbed, but autopsies determined the cause of death was the beating injuries. Victorino, the last to leave the house, took the Xbox, police said.

Left behind were the bodies of Belanger, Michelle Ann Nathan, 19; Anthony Vega, 34; Roberto "Tito" Gonzalez, 28, who recently moved from New York; Belanger's boyfriend, Francisco Ayo Roman, 30; and Jonathan Gleason, 18. They lay in bloody beds, on bloody floors. There were crimson spatters on the walls and the ceiling.

"This is the worst thing that I've ever seen in my career," said Johnson, a 33-year veteran of law enforcement. "The brutal force used against the victims ... It's indescribable."

Victorino has spent eight of the last 11 years in prison and was arrested Saturday for a probation violation. His first arrest was in an auto theft when he was 15, according to state records. He has prior convictions for battery, arson, burglary, auto theft and theft.

Hunter, who was with Victorino when he was arrested Saturday, agreed to accompany investigators for questioning. Police said he admitted his role in the slayings and identified the other two suspects.

"He was a good kid, he just got with the wrong crowd," said Hunter's father, Dan Washington. "He never seemed to be that type ... that was violent."

All four suspects appeared before a judge Saturday without attorneys. They will have a chance to ask for court-appointed lawyers on Monday.
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did you read the article? He got kicked out of a home that he was living in that wasnt his and when he left he forgot his stuff there.....hardly stealing.

But even if it was stolen do u need to slaughter six people with baseball bats and knives while they aer sleeping?>

and he was a career criminal so this isnt a surprise.


Burn this fvckers alive on payperview
 
they better fry. society doesn't need violent and stupid people like that.

almost makes me wish torture was a legitimate punishment.


violent and cruel people like that make me so angry
 
They killed six people. There are not even six games worth playing on the Xbox. What morons.
 
This story is so sad. They beat the one girl so bad that dental records could not be used to identify her. Repeat criminals should not ever be let out.
 
Wow.....an incident where video games can ACTUALLY be linked to violence. :roll:

My faith in humanity just dropped a few more notches...
 
Originally posted by: dwell
They killed six people. There are not even six games worth playing on the Xbox. What morons.
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Lol. Seriously though, these guys deserve much worse than death. I'm thinking a slow torture involving baseball bats.
 
Originally posted by: skace
Originally posted by: dwell
They killed six people. There are not even six games worth playing on the Xbox. What morons.
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Lol. Seriously though, these guys deserve much worse than death. I'm thinking a slow torture involving baseball bats.
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Yeah, all joking aside these guys are a bunch of savages not worthy of being part of out society. Killing six people over a $150 toy? That's $25 per life. It's a shame that the worst they will get is a needle in the arm then they fade off into death. The punishment does not fit the crime (unless of course they get a good 5 - 10 years of being man-raped on the daily before the state offs them).
 
Originally posted by: dighn
they better fry. society doesn't need violent and stupid people like that.

almost makes me wish torture was a legitimate punishment.


violent and cruel people like that make me so angry
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Just send them off to Najef, decked out in Hilfiger. I'm sure they'll get what's coming to them.
 
That's disgusting. I hope they die as well.

Just shows how well our prison system works, and how good of a job some of our schools and neighborhoods are doing at producing functioning members of society.
 
A man has to stand by his principles.
When a man says, ?Touch my Xbox and I?ll kill you?, sometimes he really means it.



Its back to prison for this loser in life and his cronies.
The leader deserves to be put to death.
 
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