A 20-year-old New Jersey gamer, Edward Kang, has been accused of making an attempt to kill one other gamer with a hammer after a web based dispute. Kang flew practically 1,000 miles from Newark, New Jersey, to Fernandina Seashore, Florida, to hold out the assault. Kang’s mom revealed that her son had advised her that he was happening trip with a pal she had met on-line.
Kang and the sufferer, each of comparable age, had by no means met in particular person, however had been each gamers of ArcheAge, a medieval fantasy multiplayer on-line role-playing recreation, ABC Information reported.
On June 23, Jacksonville Sheriff’s Workplace deputies responded to a house on Harrison Level Path in Florida round 2 a.m.
They found a big quantity of blood close to the doorway and in a bed room. The sufferer’s stepfather reported that he was woke up by his stepson’s screams and located him mendacity face down on the ground on prime of Kang, who was holding a hammer, in line with Regulation and Crime Information.
In line with the sufferer, he was taking part in a web based recreation and had left his room to make use of the lavatory when he encountered Kang holding a hammer.
Kang hit him on the pinnacle, resulting in a battle during which the sufferer managed to wrestle the hammer away and name for assist.
The sufferer survived the assault and acquired medical consideration for his accidents, which had been described as critical however not life-threatening, in line with ABC Information.
The stepfather helped detain Kang till police arrived. Kang reportedly advised the sufferer and her stepfather that his actions had been as a result of “he is a nasty particular person on the Web,” Regulation and Crime Information reported.
He additionally requested the arresting officer, “How lengthy is breaking and getting into and battery?”
The sufferer acquired a number of stitches for head accidents and recounted the assault to investigators.
Kang’s mom revealed that her son had advised her that he was happening trip with a pal he had met on-line. Officers later discovered a receipt for the hammer used within the assault in Kang’s motel room.
Sheriff Invoice Leeper commented on the unusual nature of the case throughout a information convention, saying, “That is weird. Some belongings you simply cannot make up. Some issues that make you say, ‘What was I pondering?'”
Kang is being held with out bond on the Nassau County Detention Middle and is scheduled to look in court docket. Sheriff Leeper added: “I might say, Mr. Kang, will probably be a very long time earlier than he can play video video games.”
