One of the more gruesome collisions of crime and video games happened on August 6, 2004, when four men broke into a home in Deltona, Florida and bludgeoned six people inside to death. The men reportedly went on their rampage, in part, to recover an Xbox that they claimed were taken from them after they were evicted from a house where one of them had been squatting.
Two years later, a jury found two of the men, Troy Victorino and Jerone Hunter, guilty of first-degree murder and handed down a death penalty. Now, like Victorino before him, Hunterâs trying to get that sentence thrown out.
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Killer in 2004 Xbox murders wants death sentence thrown out [WFTV]
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