Lose a gaming system? KILL THE PERP!

[EighteenVisions]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...d=519&ncid=716

By MIKE BRANOM, Associated Press Writer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - An ex-convict who blamed a young woman for taking his video game system and clothes recruited three teenagers to stab and beat her and five others to death, investigators said Sunday.

The 22-year-old woman was singled out for an attack so vicious that even dental records were useless in trying to identify her. Some of the victims were attacked in their sleep, according to authorities.

The victims' bodies were found Friday in a blood-spattered home.

All four suspects have been charged with first-degree murder and armed burglary, the Volusia County sheriff's department said.

Suspected ringleader Troy Victorino, 27, of Deltona, was "very guarded" during questioning, Sheriff Ben Johnson (news - web sites) said. Three 18-year-olds were also arrested Saturday: Robert Cannon of Orange City and Jerone Hunter and Michael Salas, both of Deltona.

All four were jailed in Daytona Beach while awaiting bail hearings Monday. Johnson wants prosecutors to seek the death penalty, saying, "These families will never get over this."

Police said the attack was the culmination of events revolving around a nearby vacant home owned by one of the victims' grandparents and used by Victorino and other squatters as a party house. The four men and two women who were slain had reported being harassed by the alleged assailants.

"Officials struggling to come up with a motive for the crime believe the killings were committed over the theft of some clothes and an Xbox (news - web sites) game system owned by Victorino," a statement from the sheriff's office said.

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, Johnson said. All had been stabbed, but autopsies determined the cause of death was the beating injuries.

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.

All four suspects appeared before a judge Saturday without attorneys. They will have a chance to ask for court-appointed lawyers on Monday.

Hunter, a high school wrestler, moved out of his family's house in May but recently agreed to return home for his senior year.

"He never seemed to be that type ... that was violent," his father Dan Washington said. "He was a good kid, he just got with the wrong crowd."

The sheriff's office has identified five of the victims as Michelle Ann Nathan, 19; Anthony Vega, 34; Roberto "Tito" Gonzalez, 28, who recently moved from New York; Francisco Ayo Roman, 30; and Jonathan Gleason, 18.

The sixth victim was believed to be Erin Belanger, 22, whose grandparents own the vacant home and spent the summer in Maine.

Joe Abshire, Belanger's brother-in-law, said she described heading to the vacant house to go swimming one day and finding about six people living there. The squatters were kicked out, but deputies were called to the grandparents' house six times in 10 days before the killings. The victims 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, who is married to Erin's sister Jennifer, told The Sun of Lowell, Mass., for Sunday editions.

Victorino complained that his belongings were removed from the grandparents' house while he was in jail following a July 29 arrest for battery, Johnson said. He said Victorino found his things boxed up at the victims' house and took them after the killings.

The bodies were discovered in the rental home in the working-class community about 25 miles north of Orlando after one of Nathan's co-workers at a Burger King asked someone to visit the house because she had not arrived for work.

(UPDATES throughout to correct that Victorino was arrested Saturday for probation violation, sted eight days before slayings, ADD details of Victorino's criminal record; minor edits.)


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Yes, you read right. 6 people dead. Why? OVER A FUCKING XBOX. I lose faith in the human race everyday with things I see, but this? This makes me want to live on another planet.
Are we really so petty and pathetic that a human life holds no value over a video game system? I mean honestly, why would ANYONE ever do such a thing? I'm so pissed at my fellow man right now, that I actually don't know what to say. This is horrible. That Slipknot song is right, "People=shit".

[blindside.AMG]

Originally Posted by EighteenVisions

This is horrible. That Slipknot song is right, "People=shit".

!!!!!

That is just unbelieveable. People like that are just worthless pieces of shit. I really don't want my taxes to go to feeding and housing these murderers, lets just kill them and get it over with.

[YogsVR4]

And this is why the death penalty is needed. It needs to be changed. Those fuckers should die screaming in misery - for days on end













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[EighteenVisions]

Originally Posted by YogsVR4

And this is why the death penalty is needed. It needs to be changed. Those fuckers should die screaming in misery - for days on end

I like the way this man thinks.

[TexasF355F1]

Originally Posted by YogsVR4

And this is why the death penalty is needed. It needs to be changed. Those fuckers should die screaming in misery - for days on end

Exactly. This is why once the trial is over and people like this are found guilty, should walk directly outside line up against the wall and get dealt with by a firing squad. I wouldn't mind public hangings either. It would save everyone tax payers and the govt money.

[Toksin]

Kneecap the fuckers, then hang them. Gently. So their necks don't break.

[Jimster]

I say Strip them, skin them and tie them to a tow hitch while going 200 km/h down a crap road.

[Cbass]

Death of a thousand needles. You drive fairly small pins into the bones, starting at the feet, and slowly heat them with electricity. Anything else is too good for that caliber of person.

[2strokebloke]

Yes, you read right. 6 people dead. Why? OVER A FUCKING XBOX. I lose faith in the human race everyday with things I see, but this?

The killers are not members of the human race. It is mankind's ability to use reason and logic that sets him apart from the animals. They, obviously lacking these abilities, must not be part of the human race.
I'd not be surprised if somebody were to shoot them on their way to court. Or even, perhaps more justly to organize a mob to bust them up with aluminum baseball bats. (actually, that'd be pretty surprising, but it'd be more just than a gunshot)

[thegladhatter]

Slide them down a hundred foot razor blade into a bathtub full of iodine.

[RACER D12]

Its all part of Gates plan for world domination

[eversio11]

Originally Posted by RACER D12

Its all part of Gates plan for world domination

shut up

[RACER D12]

Oh struck a nerve I see... It was a joke?

[eversio11]

This thread is no place for your geek jokes about Bill Gates.

[driftu]

wow, i am at a loss for words. but am i the only one who thinks that this these guys were more after revenge for getting ousted from there free place of living not after the x-box. either way these guys should be delt with in a quick and painful way. i suggest firing squad with co2 powered bb guns. it would take a long time to do enough damage to kill but it would kill after a while. plus that would really hurt.