Violent Video Games to Blame? Young Boy Choked by Man After 'Call of Duty' Battle
A 13 year-old-boy was attacked and choked by a 46-year-old man after the two had been playing violent video game “Call of Duty: Black Ops,” in Devon, England.
Mark Bradford, who has now been dragged to court, was furious and "lost it" when the young boy continually gloated and "trash talked" after beating him as they played online on their PlayStation 3's and chatted over their microphone headsets.
When the young teenager killed Bradford’s character in the military game, the unemployed father of three stormed out his house and found the local boy at the teen's friend's house and proceeded to choke him.
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The boy's mother rushed out to see the attack happening and pulled Bradford off of the boy leaving him with a reddened neck and scratches, according to The Daily Mail.
The man then reportedly just walked away.
"I was just sat playing. We'd had a bit of a joke and then he stormed in and grabbed me," said the unidentified young boy. "I didn't know what was going on."
"It's pathetic that a grown man would attack a defenseless child like this. If you can't handle losing to a child you shouldn't play video games."
Bradford's attorney, Tracey Baker, is claiming the middle-aged man has mental health issues and snapped when he was being called names.
"He went on and on and I just lost it. I hold my hands up, I lost the plot. In a moment of madness I went round to his house. I don't know what I was going to do," Bradford told the court. "I'd been playing the whole day and he was baiting me and baiting me and just would not shut up."
"I've seen him since and apologized. We've played online too, He's actually a decent kid," he admitted in court.
Bradford is thought to be a possible friend of the boy's family.
Bradford was freed on bail, and faces sentencing on October 24.
