Teens killed 6 people to avenge theft of X-Box

[shereads]

Our latest local murder.

Four teenaged boys were arrested yesterday in the beating deaths of 6 men and women, one of whom apparently had stolen a game and a bicycle. Also bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat and other objects was a small dog.

What kind of f**king planet is this?

 

[OldnotDead]

Our latest local murder.

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What kind of f**king planet is this?

Sher,

I wanted to make some flip remark about it being Miami, but the more I have read about this one the more it reminds me that no locale has any immunity to senseless murder. We're still dealing with one that has haunted this community for years.

It's going to be something that eventually will make the national news because the mother is known to be 'shopping' her story. The short version is that a thirteen year old girl was kidnapped, beat , raped and strangled, then tied up in chains and dumped in a river. Her body was not found for almost a year, it then took the police a number of years to finally identify all the killers.

It turned out to be group of 5 men and 3 women, incited by the women who were mad that this girl was fooling around with 'their men'. The group ranges in age from 18-25 and the individuals are still 'pleaing out', trying to avoid the death penalty.

It's a scary planet, Sher, in which you do the best you can and still have to realize that any good work you do could all be ripped apart in a moment.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

They've also fired several police officers in this case, due to the fact that the ring leader who was on probation, should not have been allowed out.

Isn't that the area where Aileen Wournos was arrested? I just watched Monster last nite and the place sounded familiar.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

You don't wanna know what I'd do to the teens who murdered that innocent little dog... *eyes changing color*

 

[Guest]

Horrifying.

Here's a link:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5652302/

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

Victorino and three teenage defendants have been charged with first-degree murder and armed burglary. The four were denied bond and appointed public defenders Monday during their first court appearance.

Clothes, video game system source of dispute - Authorities say the source of the dispute was an Xbox video game system and clothes owned by Victorino. Belanger’s grandparents, from Maine, own a Florida winter home that 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 Erin had talked to him recently about heading to the vacant house to go swimming one day and finding about six people living there. The squatters were kicked out, but they left behind the Xbox and clothes. 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 as some of them slept, authorities said. Victorino, the last to leave the house, took the Xbox, police said.

‘Indescribable’ violence - The victims, who ranged in age from 18 to 34, were found in bloody beds, and on bloody floors, and there were crimson spatters on the walls and the ceiling.

“This is the worst thing that I’ve ever seen in my career,” said Sheriff Ben 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. 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.

There's nothing to add - it's just chilling.

 

[Clare Quilty]

Our latest local murder.

Four teenaged boys were arrested yesterday in the beating deaths of 6 men and women, one of whom apparently had stolen a game and a bicycle. Also bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat and other objects was a small dog.

What kind of f**king planet is this?

I find the idea of a paltry console video game being the impetus for that kind of fiendish short-sighted savagery difficult to fathom. Had the hapless rogues instead purloined an HP ZD7280 notebook computer, with a Pentium 4 3.20 GHz w/HT Extreme CPU, a 17.0" BrightView (1680x1050) display, a 128MB GeForce FX Go5700 video card, 2.0 Gigabytes of DDR SDRAM, a 60 GB 7200 RPM HD, and a 54g WiFi card, then I be inclined to say "let the bodies hit the floor."

 

[pop_54]

Our latest local murder.

Four teenaged boys were arrested yesterday in the beating deaths of 6 men and women, one of whom apparently had stolen a game and a bicycle. Also bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat and other objects was a small dog.

What kind of f**king planet is this?

Ask the politically correct wankers who ban corporal punishment in schools, close down prisons, give offenders fucking rights, and generally fuck about with society to apease the bloody wrong doers and hopeless dossers.

Oh and don't forget the police, who are more interested in catching you for speeding than preventing murder and real crime.

 

[BlackSnake]

Our latest local murder.

Four teenaged boys were arrested yesterday in the beating deaths of 6 men and women, one of whom apparently had stolen a game and a bicycle. Also bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat and other objects was a small dog.

What kind of f**king planet is this?

Do you leave in the Metro Atlanta area? Saw it on the news. They weren't that young, but teenages nonetheless.

The way I heard it was that the ring leader was homesteading the one of the victims grandmother's house. The one victim (a girl) to over her grandmother's house while the ring leader was in jail.

The ring leader got out and found that he had been invicted. He was missing his X-box and some clothes, along with various other things. Gathered his crew and beat everyone in the house to death with alumimium baseball bats. Horrifying picture to imagine.

Now, I'll go look it up to see what they said really happened.

(ed.)Ooops! Screwed that up. Thought it was here.

 

[Clare Quilty]

What kind of f**king planet is this?

It's the kind of planet where G.W. Bush and Dick Cheney murdered +10,000 people (who are just as dead as Ms. Belanger) in order to steal their oil. Unfortunately, Mr. Victorino and company didn't realize that murder is solely the privilege of the super rich.

 

[BlackSnake]

Couldn't find it but a 15 y/o and her girlfriend stabs grandparents to death.

http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=50345 Teen Suspects to Face Grand Jury

 

[Guest]

Here's a link -

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5652302/

 

[BlackSnake]

Couldn't find it but a 15 y/o and her girlfriend stabs grandparents to death.

http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=50345 Teen Suspects to Face Grand Jury

I heard the location wrong. But did you also here about the teenaged girls that stabbed one of the girl's grandparants to death?

 

[Guest]

Yes. Another awful story.

The grandparents were taking care of her because her mom is in jail for a drug conviction. And then the grandparents wouldn't let them go to the beach so the granddaughter's friend (lover) suggested they kill them so they could go? Something like that?

It makes me sick to my stomach.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

Re: Re: Teens killed 6 people to avenge theft of X-Box

It's the kind of planet where G.W. Bush and Dick Cheney murdered +10,000 people (who are just as dead as Ms. Belanger) in order to steal their oil. Unfortunately, Mr. Victorino and company didn't realize that murder is solely the privilege of the super rich.

This is what I meant when I said in another thread that you can't even read a non-political thread without someone dragging it in.

 

[shereads]

Re: Re: Teens killed 6 people to avenge theft of X-Box

Ask the politically correct wankers who ban corporal punishment in schools, close down prisons, give offenders fucking rights, and generally fuck about with society to apease the bloody wrong doers and hopeless dossers.

Oh and don't forget the police, who are more interested in catching you for speeding than preventing murder and real crime.

There's another political correctness at work over here: the kind that encourages our state legislatures to act tough on crime by passing mandatory sentencing laws for drug possession. Our prisons are packed to overflowing with non-violent offenders and drug-related crime. If violent offenders were the primary users of prisons and criminal courts, there would be no need to make room on the judge's docket and clear out a cell by offering plea deals and early parole to repeat offenders.

It may not be politically correct to say this, but I blame mandatory drug sentencing, and in fact the entire stupid drug war, for the presence of people like this on the street. Decriminalize other drugs than just alcohol, prosectute drugged and drunk drivers alike, but stop overwhelming the justice system with prohibition. It didn't work the first time for anyone but Al Capone, and it's not working now. It's in the way.

 

[SeaCat]

Our latest local murder.

Four teenaged boys were arrested yesterday in the beating deaths of 6 men and women, one of whom apparently had stolen a game and a bicycle. Also bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat and other objects was a small dog.

What kind of f**king planet is this?

This is supposed to shock me?
Remember we are living in a country where it used to be cool to kill someone because their sneakers cost more than yours did.

Cat

 

[shereads]

Re: Re: Re: Teens killed 6 people to avenge theft of X-Box

This is what I meant when I said in another thread that you can't even read a non-political thread without someone dragging it in.

Politics is inseparable from life, and I think what Clare posted was relevent. Murderers in this country are getting younger and more brutal all the time, and you can't blame it all on violent lyrics and TV. The messages they get from the adult world about kiliing are contradictory. If half of the adult population can't understand what makes civilian deaths in Bagdad acceptable and civilian deaths in Manhattan evil, imagine how much sense it makes to children. Killing is the thing to do when you're angry and frustrated. You do it because you have the power to do it.

 

[shereads]

Re: Re: Teens killed 6 people to avenge theft of X-Box

This is supposed to shock me?
Remember we are living in a country where it used to be cool to kill someone because their sneakers cost more than yours did.

Cat

It didn't shock me either, Cat. That's what's so sad.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

I come to boards like this to *get away* from life. This is a place for me to escape to. It becomes very unenjoyable when every other post is shouting their political beliefs in my face.

Murders happen. They have happened for as long as the human race has existed. To say it's the fault of our President because he gave the order to invade Iraq is just stupid (in my view, I am sure those of you who think this think you are the one who is right). I'm sorry but the primary responsibility for children and what they see and how they react to it should be in the hands of their parents. Parental attitudes and involvment have gotten more and more lax over the years and that has alot to do with the increase in violence in teens.

I'm sure what I have to say won't make any difference in the way any of you think. That's why debating it is pointless.

 

[Clare Quilty]

This is what I meant when I said in another thread that you can't even read a non-political thread without someone dragging it in.

I think pointing out the parallel between the violence of individuals and the violence endemic to the society that spawned them was not malapropos to the gist of this thread. Also, mine was not the first politically assertive sentiment in this thread.

 

[Clare Quilty]

To say it's the fault of our President because he gave the order to invade Iraq is just stupid (in my view, I am sure those of you who think this think you are the one who is right).

I neither said nor implied that this murder was the fault of your unelected president. I sought to point out the hypocrisy in feigning outrage at this instance of man's inhumanity to man, and then not batting an eyelash at shrub's having lied us into Iraq--resulting in the murders of more than 10,000 people--for his and his friends' monetary gain.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

You can say whatever you want to. I'm not going to argue with you. Like I said. It's pointless and I have better things to do with my time.

 

[Clare Quilty]

You can say whatever you want to. I'm not going to argue with you. Like I said. It's pointless and I have better things to do with my time.

There is nothing about which to argue. I merely corrected your misrepresentation of my earlier post. I couldn’t care less about your political beliefs.

 

[R. Richard]

The link provided by sweetsubsarahh is chilling. The police knew of the basic problen before the crime happened. The ringleader of the criminals was supposed to be in jail. The police did nothing.

As a result, several police officers were fired.

The will certainly teach the police a lesson! 'If you allow people to be beaten to death by hoodlums your duties call for you to arrest, you will lose your job.' Please do not ask why the police were not arrested and prosecuted for willful negligence leading to homicide. The police have other priorities.

 

[shereads]

I come to boards like this to *get away* from life. This is a place for me to escape to. It becomes very unenjoyable when every other post is shouting their political beliefs in my face.

Murders happen. They have happened for as long as the human race has existed. To say it's the fault of our President because he gave the order to invade Iraq is just stupid (in my view, I am sure those of you who think this think you are the one who is right). I'm sorry but the primary responsibility for children and what they see and how they react to it should be in the hands of their parents. Parental attitudes and involvment have gotten more and more lax over the years and that has alot to do with the increase in violence in teens.

I'm sure what I have to say won't make any difference in the way any of you think. That's why debating it is pointless.

Will someone please explain to me why those of you who don't want to read certain posts feel compelled to read them anyway? Is the scroll function that difficult to use?

I have never seen so many people victimized by words as I have here in this Authors Hangout. Thread space is treated like a limited commodity that is being used up by interlopers. People whose interests are different from your own are accused of spoiling your good time, by "shouting in your faces."

Most amazing is the epidemic inability to recognize irony, as when you read a thread entitled "Bloody hideous murder of six people" and then claim that you came here for a bit of escapist fun, which has now been ruined by politics.

Bludgeoning 6 people doesn't dampen your spirits, but my politics do? Even if I wanted to do things your way, I'd need a tutor before I'd understand what qualifies as entertainment to you and what's off limits.

As for the shouting, I apologize. Now that I know you have the special sound feature that means you hear my posts even when you don't choose to read them, I'll try to post quietly.

I can't believe there was a time when I was in awe of everyone here because you'd had the courage to post your stories. I'm still grateful for the free porn, but c'mon, this isn't the Library of Congress and I'm not stopping you from posting and reading and ignoring anything you please. Thanks to our hosts, there's more thread where this came from.

Watch this demonstration:





















Look at all the thread I wasted, and yet there's still more! There's plenty of thread for flirting and games and jokes and issues of life and death, for those of us who happen to enjoy all those things. For those who enjoy one or more but not all, there's the scroll feature. For those who haven't yet figured out that when I post, there may be politics in the fine print, there is the Ignore Button. For me, there is virtual ignore, which Og recommends and which I find is working just fine lately. I've even learned to sort of get along with Amicus. He, at least, never suggested that I had no right to post my opinions here among The Authors.

In summary: to those who have asked that some of us resist posting on topics you don't enjoy, you're not going to like my answer. So I'll make it tiny and extra-quiet, out of consideration for whatever condition you may suffer from that prevents you from looking away.

No. This is a free speech site, and I happen to like porn with my politics. As long as there are people here whose company I enjoy and whose opinions I respect, I'll write what I please. By the way, your president is an idiot.