Wow: Mother Shoots & Kills Son Over Playing Video GamesHow the hell does something like this happen?Angelique Chase has been charged with 1st degree murder after murdering her own son, Christopher Perry, 17. According to police, it all started because he wouldn't stop playing a video game. The reports say the argument started over the game and then spilled over into a heated confrontation that resulted in the shooting.
Just before 9 pm Thursday, the Prince George’s 911 center received a call from Chase, saying her son had just been shot, according to police arrest records. Arriving officers found her son on the living room floor. He was taken by medevac to a hospital and pronounced dead at 11:01 pm.Detectives said they spoke with the relative who had been in the home, whom they did not name, and to Chase.The relative said he had separated Chase and her son on the first floor, at which point she told the relative to go to the basement.“While in the basement, the family member stated that the defendant [Chase] went downstairs to the basement into a room and went back upstairs,” detectives wrote in court papers. “Moments later, he heard what he described as a ‘loud bang.’ -(MediaTakeOut via The Washington Post)
This is a shame...it didn't even need to happen like that.