I completely agree. This is completely disgusting.
Very tragic.

@Asesino
Shut the hell up. Why do people think it's funny to make jokes out of serious matters? It's not, it's truly not.

That's grossly inappropriate sir. This is a real tragedy that shouldn't be made fun of.

Its complete bullshit. Apparently the lawyer the murderers have, told them in order to get charges reduced or dropped that they need to claim video games are responsible. These are teenagers that have enough sense to realize that they are hurting or killing someone. What the FUCK is in the water in Colorado? Murder after murder after murder. Maybe since Colorado is a quiet mountain state, death is more publicized. IDK. Well anyway RIP victim.

Why would you beat up a 7 year old? I hope they get life or worse if found guilty, which it'll clearly be. But still, that story is sad, and everyone knows that the video game excuse won't cut it either. Retards.

RIP...


any word if Heather Trujillo is related to bassist Robert Trujillo of Metallica?

-Casselman

I concur, the closest thing resembling a body slam in MK is Jax's body slam in MK3, but that's not really a body slam, it's more of a throw; I'm pretty sure the article was referring to a wrestling body slam.

On a more serious note: it's absolutely terrible that anyone would get drunk enough to do this. I often say, it's alright for someone to be drunk, but if they know they are violent, mean, or stupid when drunk then they shouldn't drink period. These kids need a real lesson that only life imprisonment can provide, assuming the article is accurate and doesn't leave out many major details. I hope the child didn't suffer too much before her untimely death; this is a truly sad event.

Praise you.

I completely agree.

They deserve life in prison for this sad atrocity.

So the whole "blame it on video games" thing is just a trick for them to get reduced punishment?

How evil. It's not like they're little kids or something. 16 and 17 year olds are old enough to know the difference between right and wrong. That is just stupid.

Shit, they're even old enough to have kids of their own for fuck's sake.

Hopefully, MKO will keep us informed on their trials, convictions and stuff.

r.i.p. little girl

May the perpetrators get the most severe punishment coming to them.


.......and if that's true about the lawyer telling them to blame it on a game for a reduced sentence, then hell, i say throw his ass in jail to.

don't drop the soap bitches.

That is just sickening. Absolutely horrible. Those kids were 16/17; they're more than old enough to know the difference between right and wrong, and that was a little girl, only 7 years old and is the sister of one of those kids.

I truly hope Midway helps to get those bastards a really long term in jail with no possibility of parole.

This sort of thing just angers me. What sort of normal human being would do that kind of thing to a little girl? That's just beyond me.

Praise the 2 of you too.

I totally agree.

I cant believe someone would do this. It's horrible. Condolences to the family of the young girl.

Just because a few news sites are calling it a "Mortal Kombat Inspired Death" doesnt really mean it has to be front page news on the most popular MK sites.

Guess some people just eat up what the media feeds them.

Once again People can not take responsibility for their own actions and must comp out by blaming vidoegames. Not to mention the guy is 17, i could see a 10 year old blaming a videogame, but not somone of that age, and you know what, if they use the excuse he is mentally not able to know the difference between reality and videogames, then he should have never been baby sitting in the first place!
I think this will blow over too, but its a sad day. Drinking was invloved and it was merly mentioned, yet the vido games were clearly writtin out for everyone to see. The media needs a story, and they made one. Lets just hope Midway stands their ground on this issue, which theyve had to do in the past. Atleast one place had this to say....."Media reports are dubbing this incident "the Mortal Kombat death", saying that the girl's injuries were caused by Mr Roberts and Ms Trujillo imitating moves from the game. But the police affidavit, published by The Denver Channel, did not clearly link the game to the physical assault. In the affidavit, Mr Roberts said he was downstairs playing videogames while the girls wrestled upstairs. Ms Trujillo said "she and the victim had been wrestling, playing 'Mortal Combat'." There is no clarification whether "Mortal Combat" is the misspelt videogame title or a term for rough play. The affidavit describes the alleged wrestling moves in detail, but does not link them specifically to the fighting game. The affidavit doesn't include any further statements about the game, or what game Mr Roberts was allegedly playing downstairs. This one reference has placed Mortal Kombat at the centre of a media storm about video game violence. Mr Roberts and Ms Trujillo are in custody awaiting trial. If convicted, they face up to 48 years in prison. http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,22955112-5014117,00.html?from=mostpop

and on another note... what the fuck is wrong with kids these days, im 26, and i couldnt imagine doing some of the things teenagers are doing. im scared to death that the kids of today are gonna be running the country later in life........

Fuck, video games again? These dumbasses can accept punishment for thier mistakes, they don't need to blame it on MK.

RIP.


BTW, my grandpa seems to be talking this as gospel and TRULY believes that MK caused this and I shouldn't be playing it, nor does he say I should be playing Resident Evil.

Maybe they were using Bo Rai Cho's moves...

1. They were drunk
2. They body-slammed the poor kid
3. They used wrestling-like moves (which actually aren't even in MK)

It's pretty stupid that they called it an "Ultimate Death", too.

this is a very sad situation

I have to agree with Maggo! but the 3D mk games always have the grab move (press R1 in ps2)!

Yea, RIP little girl.

Who in their right mind goes that far? *shakes head*

I still "play MK"(act like we're fighting. lol) to this day, except now it's with my 2&5 year old sons. And I swear, if you don't intend to hurt someone, everything stops if someone starts crying. Everything STOPS.

These people were doing that shit on purpose, so they deserve the punishment...full force. Sure, blame it on the video game....like that's gonna make the situation better for anybody.

mm.....

that's a mistake these kids have to live with now. I remember when I was a kid I used to mess around wrestling and stuff and playing in a way similar to those kids, same thing with imitating professional wrestlers. I could just imagine myself in the situation when they find out that the girl isn't breathing anymore. I don't think it was their intention to kill this girl, if it was I don't think prison would be suitable for them, it should be a mental asylum.

Once again, another MK-related death.

Is Mortal Kombat really responsible, or should the parents teach their children about emulation?

Yeah....seriously this is just like the Latvia kids a few years ago on here, it's not Midway's nor MK's fault it's the upbringing, lack of good parents or upbringing....

Although I'm sure asswipes like Hillary and Jack Thompson will try to "blame MK" for this....

Sucks to see stories like this though. I'd have to disagree with ya there man. Not at all man, the kids make themselves look bad...blaming a mere vid game for their own misguided actions is just a horrible excuse for killing that 7 year old. MK doesn't look bad at all, only people that blame TV and Video games look bad. Those are the people that look bad, when in reality they just don't want to man up and face the fact that there's consequences for their actions so they blame it on something that has nothing to do with the fact like a video game or movie....it's BS

For once I have to agree with you sindel. Now there's gonna be idiots like JackThompson thats gonna say blame this on videogames. Life would be a pretty good sentencing for those 2 idiots. When I read this story (after watching the news report on this on the road runner website), I damn near puked out my egg nog. I'm not even lying or exsagerrating (did I spell that right?) on that. Thats how sickened I am on this. I also agree with skinley's post.

By the way, asesino, I hope and pray that the mods ban your ass for what you said. Regardless of if you meant it as a joke or not. That was just too fucking dumb and thats just me being nice about it

I am going to say here what i said at MKN...

When i read this i thought surely this is what they would blame on the WWE.. but no, Mortal Kombat? I mean, wtf? Body Slams? There are none of that in the game... if they ripped off the kids head, then yeah, i guess. People should stop using video games as an exuse for their childish and violent actions. They should look in the mirror.

Any why just Computer Games? There are more violent movies, Tv Programmes and hell, even adverts, that can help attribute to this. Note to real world: STOP USING COMPUTER GAMES AS A TARGET!

Rant over...

Well detox you cant throw a lawyer in prison for doing his job. Even tho most lawyers are scumbags. But if you ever find yourself about to be in the slammer, ud find the scummiest of the scumbag lawyers to reduce your sentence. I know i would. How these kids got drunk is where everyone needs to divert thier attention, NOT videogames.

I was just thinking... MK8, this is just what Jack Thompson needs to poke his fat head into the equation and get the game banned just like he did manhunt.