Drunken teens kill 7 year old with Mortal Kombat moves

What a disgusting story.

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I've never played Mortal Kombat and I definitely agree that it's just an extra angle to the story. There were a lot of articles out there and this one downplayed it more than others. Most of them mentioned the game in the headlines.

This article does say that the older girl had the younger one pinned down and was thumping her chest like typing on a typewriter. Is that from the game?

 

In this article, the two older kids say they were acting out moves from the game. So while I'm generally pretty quick to blame the press, looks like the game angle is justified.

Trujillo said they were acting out the video game "Mortal Combat" by savagely hitting and kicking Zoe, even dropping her on her side, which broke her wrist. Roberts, who claimed to be a martial-arts expert with his hands registered as "lethal weapons, said Zoe had asked him to stop hitting her but that he didn't because "...I was drunk."

Pathetic.