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Georgia Teen Accused Of Killing Great-Grandmother With Sword Over Video Games (VIDEO)

First Posted: 08/16/11 09:39 AM ET Updated: 10/16/11 06:12 AM ET

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (AP/The Huffington Post) -- Authorities in west Georgia say a 14-year-old is in custody after his 77-year-old great-grandmother was stabbed to death with a sword and his grandmother was wounded.

Douglas County Sheriff Phil Miller says officers arrived at the home Monday afternoon and found the grandmother, who is in her 50s, barricaded inside a room and the great-grandmother on the ground outside.

They say the teen was standing in the doorway with what they described as a full-sized sword and a pellet rifle, and that he shot out the windows of a patrol car.

Authorities say police used a stun gun to take the teen into custody after a standoff. The grandmother was taken to a hospital for treatment of what officials described as non-life threatening injuries.

Relatives of the suspect told CBS Atlanta that the teen -- identified by the station as a 15-year-old -- attacked his great-grandmother and grandmother when he was told to stop playing video games.

Investigators say this is the third time this year that they have responded to calls about the teen behaving violently.

"We've arrested him on two different occasions," Miller said, according to CBS Atlanta. "Once in June where he had another sword, which is in evidence. This is not the same sword. He cut his grandmother on the foot with it that time."


 
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bipolarbears60
common sense isn't so common
12:31 PM on 08/17/2011
HP/AOL will you please fix this thread????? Every time I try to favorite a comment the screen starts jumping around.

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bipolarbears60
common sense isn't so common
12:02 PM on 08/17/2011
"We've arrested him on two different occasions," Miller said, according to CBS Atlanta. "Once in June where he had another sword, which is in evidence. This is not the same sword. He cut his grandmother on the foot with it that time."

So, the question then becomes: why was he out of custody and able to commit these acts?
10:26 AM on 08/17/2011
So the kid hacks up granny once before with a sword, but they permit him to own another bigger sword after he obviously has been shown to commit violent acts. These grandparents win the Darwin award.
10:23 AM on 08/17/2011
lol at blaming it on video games
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WilmaJune
02:50 AM on 08/17/2011
The grandmother and great grandmother could have had a PINS PETITION issued. Person In Need Of Supervision. Numerous avenues of help were available. IMO grandparents have no business raising their grandchildren.
02:21 AM on 08/17/2011
This is not normal behavior and seems a bit psychopathic, not a product of his environment. What an awful quandary, psychopaths feel no remorse and will continue their criminal and deadly behavior. Why would we not just institute the death penalty once diagnosed. Regardless of the age, keeping them incarcerated endangers the lives of the guards, medical personal, and the other prisoners, they are not redeemable, why endanger the lives of others.
09:14 PM on 08/16/2011
The title should have been - Teen kills grandmother because he didn't get what he wanted. The idiotic association between violence and video games is absurd. Did everyone that participated in crusades play video games?.
07:06 AM on 08/17/2011
When you become indifferent to violent deaths, which a prevelant in video games, you become dangerous. Many military personnel in Viet Nam became indifferent to death as evidenced by the carnage inflicted on the innocent victims of villages there. When the shock of killing someone is gone, death does not have a barrier.
08:13 PM on 08/17/2011
You can't POSSIBLY equate those who served in the Vietnam war with those who play video games. How absurd. This kid was obviously mentally unstable. There's absolutely nothing to say he wouldn't act the same way if he was denied TV time, seeing his friends or chocolate milk. Stupid sensationalism...
07:23 PM on 08/16/2011
OMG! What a disturbing story! My grandparents raised me & my older half-brother stayed with our mom, he was in jail for drug use by the age of 15. He religiously played video games & I wasn't allowed to have a system. I went to church & had plenty of household chores to do, without an allowance (I didn't have everything I wanted, but I had everything I needed); my brother had no responsibilties at home & roved around town with the wrong crowd. I give all credit to my grandparents for raising me well & to truly appreciate what I have & not regret what I don't have. My brother has a lot of big ideas but nothing ever comes to fruition because he doesn't think he should have to work hard for it. I have worked two or three jobs, in order to make ends meet & now I have a college degree, that required a LOT of hard work. He would rather lose his apartment & move back in with our mother than work so hard. He has never learned what it is to truly value hard work & reap it's rewards.

I wish my grandparents' method of parenting was the norm these days, then things like what this boy did wouldn't happen. No respect, no structure, but a LOT of entitlement & not near enough adult supervision nowadays. When will this madness stop?
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mszags
10:59 PM on 08/16/2011
It will stop when parents start taking parenthood seriously....when they forget about being their kids buddy and start being parents...when they STOP trying to buy their kids loyalty...when they stop bargining for their kids approval....when they realize their kids don`t have to compete with each other for material things for prestige...when they realize that one...two...three...time out doesn`t always work and as they get older is useless...when they acknowledge that kids want and need boundaries and it is the parents job to set and enforce them...when they stop being more concerned with themselves rather than their kids. If you aren`t ready for that kind of commitment then, DON`T HAVE KIDS!!!!
10:38 PM on 08/17/2011
I agree extremely! My chilren respect, love & trust me. I didn't have to beat them or use time outs or bribe them, a spanking now & then until around the age of four, when they had learned what was & was not acceptable behavior. They also were taught, at an early age, the difference between a want & a need. Too many parents these days would rather be their child's friend than their parent. I'm not sure most of them know how to be a parent. Sickening, at times.
11:26 PM on 08/16/2011
I like your post!!
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pciorlandosales
have come to chew bubble gum and kick ash
07:10 PM on 08/16/2011
from the articale: it sounds like the authorities stumbled in this case. The authorities should have never allowed the teen to be placed back into that household after the first incodent. Once again we are left to ask "where where the parents?". Why and how did this teen get a sword after the first incodent? Alot of unanswered questions here :/
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oommma4eva
08:07 PM on 08/16/2011
A lot of questions true...but the one that I can't even imagine a reasonable answer to is "Why would there be a sword around an violent kid? A SWORD??? A sword...
10:47 PM on 08/16/2011
!!!!!!!!!

A SWORD, which he used once before, on the same grandma he assaulted AGAIN!!
How come he gets to have/keep his own video gaming system?

Whatever the kid's issues.
A large part of this is STUPID PARENTING (and grand parenting)!!

Speaking of which - where's "MOMMA"?
How about "DADDY"?

I have little sympathy for the injured parties.
They had PLENTY of warning.

This was the THIRD such incident!!
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Gigantorman
Do not fear, I'm only here to bust chops
04:21 PM on 08/16/2011
Let's all be honest with one another here. I know this is a touchy subject, but it's high time we cleared the air....great-grandmothers can really get under your skin sometimes AND grandmothers...oh, don't get me started.
Fry the little basteeh!
04:14 PM on 08/16/2011
This kid was not raised well. No Mother no Father. The police were called three times. Why didn't they take him away earlier. Too many grandparents are raising kids these days. Don't have kids if can't raise them. Grandparents should not be raising them. I hopr they lock away this kid for life.
04:43 PM on 08/16/2011
There is nothing wrong with grandparents raising their grandchildren. When my mother passed and my father couldn't handle raising all of us on his own, my maternal grandmother took me in. I graduated high school, got a college degree, and am now a working professional. It seemsto me that the problem wasn't the grandparents, but a seriously disturbed boy. He should have faced charges the first time that he attacked her, but let's not blame the victim.
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Brian Samaniego
Open Minded
06:39 PM on 08/16/2011
I agree with you sometimes the grandparents turn out to be better parents in some cases, but let's face facts, that's not always the case. This kid needs psychological help, how is our tax money going to help him or society if he's stuck in a private prison system getting fed, working out, and free shelter? He needs serious counseling and should have to pay with endless community service so he is reminded of his sin, but will also put back to the community that he affected through his thoughtless actions. He is a statement of his surroundings while growing up, and part of it has to do with his genetics.
09:09 PM on 08/16/2011
Your're right. Yuor grandmother did a great job raising you. The kid needs help.
10:53 PM on 08/16/2011
And you need SPELL CHECK!

Can't you PROOFREAD one lousy sentence???
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Brian Samaniego
Open Minded
03:51 PM on 08/16/2011
I try to imagine what this kid might have been thinking. For example the parents weren't around which leads to me to believe there is some family issue whether negative or positive that has led him to spend more time with his grandma than with his parents. Which for some kids, especially ones that lack self discipline, would cause some behavioral problems to emerge. Who knows what violence he has witnessed in his life, who know really how is grandma was to him, what if she was evil? I know the majority of us don't want to kill anyone, but then again we're not around people that make us feel that way, plus we're all more mature. She could've taunted him, chronically insulted his parents for raising him the way he was, or maybe just straight up neglected him until he finally lost it. He shouldn't have acted the way he did, but at that age he is still immature and those teens usually need extra support, especially if the police were called on him various times. The Doctors just let him go?
bipolarbears60
common sense isn't so common
12:14 PM on 08/17/2011
What Doctors? The story mentions prior arrests and prior violence by the 14 yr old. It mentions no Doctors. Are you assuming cops assumed he was mentally disturbed and got him treatment or something?????? As far as I know cops don't have that authority, only judges. Even child protective agencies and workers don't have that authority. They can recommend it to a judge, but only a judge can force treatment on anyone of any age.
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wolverine45
03:35 PM on 08/16/2011
SWORDS ARE DEADLY WEAPONS THEY SHOULD BE BANNED ALONG WITH ROCKS AND LARGE STICKS AND CANES AND AUTOMOBILES AND PEOPLES FISTS AND WELL U GET THE PIC..THAT IS UNLESS YOUR A METALLY DISORDERED LIBERALS.
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jimtpat
Hell's Pretty Pink Bells
02:53 PM on 08/16/2011
Then again, the kid may have just spent three hours trying to get the free download for "Angry Birds" to work.
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jimtpat
Hell's Pretty Pink Bells
02:49 PM on 08/16/2011
The problem with a video game like "Diner Dash" is that the intensity keeps building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building and building until SUDDENLY someone yells at you to TURN THAT DAMN THING OFF.....