This past Saturday night, suspect Erik Salvador Ayala fired shots into a random crowd in Portland, Oregon. After killing two and injuring seven, Ayala shot himself in the head. The gaming connection?
Ayala is described as being “quiet” and those who knew him say this shooting comes as a complete surprise. This shooting is the worst shooting in Portland’s history.
Police have released new details about the 24 year-old Ayala. He was unemployed and apparently depressed, leaving what appears to be a suicide note for his roommate. In it, he says that he can be found “somewhere downtown,” but he “wasn’t sure” where. Ayala also included all his personal information (SSN, back account number, alien number, etc.) He also left his PS3 to his roommate:
“You know my ps3 is special. Similar USED ps3′s go for AT LEAST $450-$500. Our landlord guy wants a ps3 like mine. Let him know that $400 would be a GOOD deal. If he doesn’t want it, format the drive by going to Settings>System>Format Utility. You can say it “comes with the latest firmware software” to help market it on the internet. In case you don’t know, it’s the special “100% backwards compatible” (60 GB) ps3.”
The Oregon press also points out that he enjoyed playing Resistance and Left 4 Dead. Just in case you’re keeping track.
Man, I want to kill my ex-boss and the HR director bitch who fired me while treating me like garbage. Where can I find a decent sniper rifle, untraceable, capable of hitting a target about 1 Km away?
Nah, I’ll go back to Vice City Stories. I don’t want to kill myself later…
Sad story…
# 20 Angel H. Wong said, “You are the first conservative in the universe who doesn’t blame it on Rock/rap/hiphop music or violent videogames.”
I don’t know. I know quite a few conservatives in law enforcement (PD & FBI) who know the drug angle very well. In fact, a couple of them were the ones who tipped me off to the fact that all of the kids shooting people at school were on either street or prescription drugs.
I’m a quiet unemployed guy who like to play Sims 2.
Should I be locked up?
People were freaking out and going on killing sprees long before video games were invented.
I’ve been a gamer since they invented the stuff in the seventies, I’ve never felt even a little homicidal. Hmmm, There was this chief petty officer when I was in the NAVY. – but it definitely wasn’t video game caused the only game we had on the carrier was DIGDUG.
I’m sick of it, everytime some young guy goes on a killing spree they have to bring up that he was a gamer. Big surprise, right?, hard to believe as videogames are so rare…
#23,
That depends, did you buy a gun and can’t explain why you need a gun?
“Octuplets Breathing On Their Own!” screams headline!
Hey. So am I.
>> Benjamin said, on January 27th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
>> Just watch. They are going to blame video games and guns for this. The truth is that this is a deranged individual and video games and a gun did not make him shoot people.
You’re arguing against a position nobody is making. (at least nobody who is informed.)
Violent media ENCOURAGES violence in certain susceptible individuals.
Guns give this individuals the tools to kill more effectively.
But neither MAKES them be violent.
HERE,
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nM0Irl_rY0Y
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#10, at one point in my life I spent years struggling like that. Difference, I didn’t have the Internet and certainly didn’t have a $500+ PS3 plus the time to waste playing it. If money was his problem, he shouldn’t have been wasting money on a PS3 or the games (probably spent thousands with the game system plus games when all told). Sell the PS3 and the car, right there he said he’d get $3000.
For me, the answer was work multiple jobs (each paying little, but added up to enough to get by) and living cheap. Sure, I ate foods like rice and beans many nights but I focused on myself and worked my way out of that life.
Right now where I live is in the middle of a snow storm. If I was desperate for money, I could go door to door in the neighborhood and charge $10 to clear drive ways, I’d probably pull in a couple hundred. All I would need is a shovel. Its hard, but there is always a way out if you are willing to do the hard work (toilets don’t clean themselves and never will).
If only everyone in the crowd that day had been armed – someone might have shot him before he shot them.
Get more guns on the street – you know it makes sense!
29,
And an alien in this nation HAS to have a LEGIT job with an income and PAPER WORK, of they are sent HOME.
# 31 ECA said, “And an alien in this nation HAS to have a LEGIT job with an income and PAPER WORK, of they are sent HOME.”
Only if on an H1B type of Visa. Otherwise, no.