25 year old man kills 9 year old kid over a video game SMH

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damn nyc. just had one of the best years for the murder rate ever, and we start the year like this.... shame man
 
1010WINS last night said that NYC already has five murders recorded. The guy who stabbed the kid also has a history of mental issues.
 
Originally Posted by jerseymizzle

it'd be nice for them to explain how a video game caused this.
oh right. they just want to blame a "stupid and pointless" game. journalistic integrity at its finest.

they didn't even tell us what started it. the kid happened to be playing and now it's an xbox's fault and not the crazy guy who stabbed a kid.
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I agree, they could have put more details instead of bashing the game
 
the 25 year old was probably trying to sleep or something and got pissed because the kid was playing video games n keeping him up or something, i find it toohard ot believe he got SO mad and stabbed him...theres ALWAYS more behind stories that the news put out there...
 
Originally Posted by chris steez

the 25 year old was probably trying to sleep or something and got pissed because the kid was playing video games n keeping him up or something, i find it too hard ot believe he got SO mad and stabbed him...theres ALWAYS more behind stories that the news put out there...
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The boy was probably annoying the %$#$ out of the man by like begging him to play, or throwing things at him and such. However, to stab and KILL a boy overthat is just straight ignorant, immature, horrible and that dude should rot for a long time SMH
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[h1]Fatal stabbing of 9-year-old Anthony Maldonado raises questions, but no lesson[/h1]
Michael Daly

Sunday, January 3rd 2010, 4:00 AM

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Police say 9-year-old Anthony Maldonado was fatally stabbed at 3:35 a.m. over a Tony Hawk video game.
The first snow of the new year was dusting the sleeping city when a 911 operator entered a report that carried no surprise even in a city that was reporting a record low in murder.

"MALE STABBED. .."

Then the operator added a truly shocking detail.

"VICTIM IS NINE YEARS OLD."

A report of a child shot would likely have meant another youngster struck by a stray round or an accidental discharge, but there are no stray knives. Few people are ever stabbed by accident.

But who would deliberately plunge a knife into a child?

A crazed parent, like the Bronx father in 2002 who stabbed his 10-year-old son because he kept watching TV after being told to turn it off?

Maybe a would-be kidnapper, like the Brooklyn man who stabbed an 11-year-old in 2002?

Or maybe a passing psycho, like the mentally ill Bronx man who stabbed an 8-year-old as he played by his stoop?

Or maybe another child, like in 2005, when a 9-year-old stabbed an 11-year-old over a Spaldeen ball?

All Saturday's report said was that a 9-year-old had been stabbed in apartment 6A at 75 La Salle St. in Harlem. The only other detail was the time, 3:35 a.m., an hour when a child would be expected to be sleeping in peaceful keeping with the big snowflakes swirling dreamily down.

Dream was turning to nightmare as emergency lights flashed in the pre-dawn darkness and sirens pierced the hush. Patrol car doors thumped. The cops' hurried steps left prints in the quarter inch of snow on the walkway leading to the lobby.

Up they hurried to the sixth floor. The paramedics were right behind them and immediately set to work.

Nine-year-old Anthony Maldonado had last been seen happily playing a Tony Hawk skateboarding game on the PlayStation he got for Christmas. He had then knocked on his uncle's bedroom door and announced that he had been stabbed.

At St. Luke's Hospital, the trauma team did all they could to save the boy, but officially lost the fight at 4:19 a.m., 44 minutes after the call came into 911. Anthony lived with his mother in New Jersey, but had been spending his school vacation with relatives in Harlem.

The only other person who had been in the room at the time of the stabbing had been a 25-year-old named Alex Morales. The police took Morales to the 26th Precinct stationhouse for questioning, but he was less than forthcoming - at least at the start.

The thought that the boy might have been killed over the gaming system became all the more horrific as the grandfather remembered how delighted this "lovely boy" had been to get it at Christmas.

The mother arrived at the hospital in tears. She stayed in tears, fighting to catch her breath in a new year suddenly robbed of all its hope and promise before even its second day was done.

The dawn had brought only grayness and biting cold, all of New York literally chilled as the temperature dropped from 30 degrees at the hour of the killing to 27 at the rise of a sun bereft of warmth. The temperature continued to fall to 25 and a biting wind made the air seem so much colder.

No place in the city seemed colder than in front of the building at 75 La Salle St. The dusting of snow had been packed to a slick hardness by all the steps that had followed the first hurried strides of the cops.

Residents ventured out to walk the dog or to buy food for breakfast. The elevated Broadway local began running with greater frequency, screeching into the waking city.

If little Anthony had been killed by a gun, we could have joined the mayor in once against decrying these murderous machines. We might have told ourselves that at least this tragedy could help save other youngsters.

Anthony's death by knife offers no lesson such as becomes instantly clear when a 911 report carries that word "shot." Surely there will be lessons to learn as the full story becomes clear. The time of the report does make me wonder what a 9-year-old was doing up at that hour.

Meanwhile, there is no shame in being a little overprotective when danger lurks even in the safest of big cities turned dreamy with swirling snow at the start of a brand new year.

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