Clothes cause people to kill.
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From: gatt-admin@gatt.co.tt [mailto:gatt-admin@gatt.co.tt]On Behalf Of
Richard Jobity
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 1:18 PM
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Subject: {GATT} Spurious, but evidence for those who campaign against
video games.
Notice that, even though the X-box is peripheral to the incident, it makes
the headline.
Police: Xbox Theft Spurred Fla. Slayings
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040809_123.htmlDAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Aug. 9, 2004 - A dispute over clothes and a video game
system between a young woman and a squatter in her grandparents' house
apparently sparked the vicious beating and stabbing murders of six people
whose bodies were found late last week in a blood-spattered home, police
said.
Troy Victorino, 27, Robert Cannon, 18, Jerone Hunter, 18 and Michael Salas,
18, are charged with first-degree murder and armed burglary. The teens
confessed shortly after they were arrested Saturday, authorities said. All
four were jailed in Daytona Beach while awaiting bail hearings Monday.
Police said the attack was the brutal culmination of an argument between
Victorino, an ex-convict, and one of the victims, who is believed to be Erin
Belanger, 22. She was singled out for a beating so vicious that even dental
records were useless in trying to identify her.
Belanger's grandparents, from Maine, own a winter home in Deltona, between
Orlando and Daytona Beach, which 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 she had talked to him last
Sunday about heading to the vacant house to go swimming one day and finding
about six people living there. The squatters were kicked out, but the Xbox
video game system and clothes were left behind. 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, authorities said.
The victims, some of whom were sleeping, did not put up a fight or try to
escape, Sheriff Ben Johnson said. All had been stabbed, but autopsies
determined the cause of death was the beating injuries. Victorino, the last
to leave the house, took the Xbox, police said.
Left behind were the bodies of Belanger, Michelle Ann Nathan, 19; Anthony
Vega, 34; Roberto "Tito" Gonzalez, 28, who recently moved from New York;
Belanger's boyfriend, Francisco Ayo Roman, 30; and Jonathan Gleason, 18.
They lay in bloody beds, on bloody floors. There were crimson spatters on
the walls and the ceiling.
"This is the worst thing that I've ever seen in my career," said 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 and was arrested
Saturday for a probation violation. 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.
Hunter, who was with Victorino when he was arrested Saturday, agreed to
accompany investigators for questioning. Police said he admitted his role in
the slayings and identified the other two suspects.
"He was a good kid, he just got with the wrong crowd," said Hunter's father,
Dan Washington. "He never seemed to be that type ... that was violent."
All four suspects appeared before a judge Saturday without attorneys. They
will have a chance to ask for court-appointed lawyers on Monday.
Other headlines
http://www.wesh.com/news/news/3632177/detail.htmlDeltona Mass Murder Suspects In Court Today
Police: Baseball Bats Used To Beat Victims
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/st...94226%255E663,00.html
Beaten to death over video game
http://www.wmtw.com/Global/story.asp?S=2149235Winter home at heart of fatal dispute
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,3020...3184437,00.htmlFLORIDA'S XBOX MURDERS
http://wcco.com/topstories/topstories_stor..._222080904.htmlSquatter Accused Of Xbox Slayings
He, 3 Others Allegedly Beat Six To Death In Florida Winter House
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