Devin Moore (murderer)

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Devin Darnell Moore (born Devin Darnell Thompson on May 15, 1985) is an American convicted murderer who killed two law enforcement officers and a dispatcher at a police station in Fayette, Alabama on June 7th, 2003. Moore had been arrested for car theft and gained control of his arresting officer's service pistol. He was captured shortly afterward in Mississippi after fleeing in a stolen police cruiser. The shooting sparked a controversy regarding violent video games, as Moore was quoted as saying "Life is a video game. Everybody's got to die sometime" during his arrest, with Moore's defense later arguing that Moore was not guilty by reason of serious mental defect. They asserted that his repeated playing of the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City had incited his shooting spree and that he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder following parental abuse by his father. The controversial video game theory was highlighted in an episode of the news magazine television series 60...

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