Police: Pa. Boy Stabs Brother Over Game
Jul 17 01:16 PM US/Eastern


LANSDOWNE, Pa. (AP) - A 13-year-old boy fatally stabbed his brother with a steak knife after the 16-year-old refused to turn over a video game controller, authorities said.

Jahmir Ricks was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Antwan Ricks at their home outside Philadelphia. The older boy died of a single stab wound to the chest, police said, and a bent and bloody knife was recovered from the home.

Lansdowne police said the younger boy told them, "I just stabbed my brother," when they arrived at the home Sunday.

Police believe the argument started when Antwan Ricks would not turn over the game controller after losing a game to his brother. Police Chief Daniel Kortan said the rules of the house were that the person who lost had to give someone else a chance to play.

The argument escalated into a brawl, and the younger boy grabbed the knife, Kortan said.

Antwan Ricks was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Jahmir Ricks, who was charged as an adult, was being held without bail. It was not immediately known if he had obtained an attorney. He faces charges of third-degree murder, assault, recklessly endangering another person and possession of instruments of crime.


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Geez. What a stupid move! I've fought with my brother over stuff. But would never resort to that kind of thing. Just sickening!

Those parents just lost both sons...

Yes, they did didn't they? :{

That's like hella brutal.

great another couple of idiots who have to put a bad name on other gamers i can just imagine what politicians are going to say about this one

Thats why the rule at my house is you always play 2 player games when someone else is there!

why do i have no sympathy for this kind of idiocy....

Video games make more money than the film industry. Their here to stay! Dont worry.

well as long as i import and live in Canada I'm fine i feel bad for American gamers with people like Hillary Clinton and legislators temporarily banning games like manhunt

Really isnt surpirising..Kids can get pretty warped over video games...very sad to lose 2 children to such and act.

That kind of violence over something as worthless a a video game is morbidly grotesque! Video games, of course, influence violence, and parents are (sometimes) aware of that, but after stabbing someone just to get a controller?! That, members of Unexplained Mysteries, is absolutely immature!
May the 16 year old rest in peace and hopefully, that little brat of a 13 year old will spend the rest of his days in solitary confinement.

we are we are we.................................. are YOUTH OF THE NATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! POD

Wow...



... wow.



Just absurd...

This is not the first time i've heard something like this.. it's getting more and more common these days. oh well, too bad

Sad to hear something like this happen

Used to be kids would just call each other a few choice names and throw a few punches now and then, now they kill their sibling or anyone else that bugs them at the momment which also puts an end to any chance at a normal life for themselves! It,s tragic and it,s stupid!

I lament thee.

Right on, member, right on

You know what they say. "Spair the rod, spoil the child".

Its sad the parents lose both kids but society teaches violence and the kids imitate it which creates a circle of violence parents need to tach there children violence is a asd thing i just feel so bad for the parents

why? Why? WHY? WHY IS THE WORLD LIKE THIS? It is sad............. WHERE IS THE LOVE????

I feel ya', Romeo. I feel like the world is now a bitter, dark place now with no love or care. Just violence and more violence. I mean, I'm a game hog. But I would never stab someone, especially someone who is related to be, for a video game. When things like this get out of hand, I need to run away in a place of peace and quiet. Turn off the lights, and just think to myself: "What has this world come to?" Violence. We shouldn't be making war. More bombs, more war, more violence. Annihilation. Sadly, since I'm only 12/1, nobody ever believes me. Nobody EVER listens to the kids, especially adults. I tell somebody something interesting, they just say "That's fine," and push me away. Then as I'm going somewhere, they say "Kids these day, you know?" So then I decided not to announce any reports, eyewitness accounts, or sightings of monsters, UFOs, ghosts or anything like that to anyone I know. Only Believers are my friends now. That was like 5 years ago, when I became a Believer. Nobody thinks of Unexplained Phenomenon in my family anymore. And I'm happy with that, just to shut them up and keep the Unsolved and Discovered to myself.

Reminds me of the Phil Collins song. This is the world we live in, and these are the hands we're given USE THEM!!!!!!

true that romeo its sad but true its all gone

Thats so sad...

now am scared of my brother :S

WTF were the parents thinking? They should have buried the dead son somewhere the authorities wouldn't find it and say he was kidnapped by a Cuban guy.

If I played any part in killing any of my family, I'd probably commit suicide. I wouldn't be able to live with the guilt.

u know sad but i kinda agree

why are they charging him as an adult he is only 13. If thats a young man Im old as hell .

More people need to stop the chain of violence. If someone wrongs you then forgive them and the chain is broken. Easier said then done but it's worth while to try.

Great.. more excuses to ban video games.. look they don't need to ban any game; just keep them away from uneducated monkeys..

You forgive them and so they think it wasn't such a bad thing, and they do it again-and again-and again. They need to know that it is not OK to hurt another human, never mind kill somone. If being thrown in prison teaches him, then so be it. If he attacked his brother over a video game, what could have happened in a social situation if someone insulted him?

After his prison sentence he should be forgiven of course.

I argue with my sister time to time, but I would never kill her or do anything that horrible.

someone please tell me why these boys were so unsupervised that noone heard their fight in time to separate them?>? And how is it that a 13 year old doesnt know that its WRONG to hurt people? I'm pretty sure that byt 13 I knew that murder was wrong. 13 year olds know what they are doing... granted, they are not adults. but they are aware.

Oh, OK, I agree, when the time is served, yes, they have paid their debt to society. But, I wonder what will happen to him when the reality of what he has done hits him?

I don't think any one understands what being charged as an adult means. at the least he will get 10-20 for man saluter I don't even want to think about what he will get for murder 1.

even if he knows whats right and wrong the BOY IS 13 FOR GODS SAKE!!!! He is a dumb kid just so happend he did some thing VERY GOD DAMN STUPID.

Yes.. At 13yrs old..I didn't realise 'sticking sharp things' into people could not only hurt them but could kill them as well...
Nah.. I was 14yrs old before I realised that... sniff...

" Violence is spread worldwide and theirs families on the street,
we sell drugs to children now, why cant we just see
that all we do is elliminate our future the things we do today
money is our incentive now, and that makes it okay
i believe love is the answer i believe love will find a way" BLESSED UNION OF SOULS

I am sure you did and I am sure he did but i didn't say he didn't.

What I am saying is that a kid that age doesn't think when he is mad even grown adults make that mistake. You're just some vigilante type arint you lil billy? every post you're like GIVE THE ****** THE CHAIR!!! Aside from that he is still a lil kid he isn't a grown up don't treat him like one.

i don't like people trying to ban videogames either. In this case, it was just the older kid hogging the controller and the younger one really upset about it. what game were they playing anyways? i doubt it influenced the little boy's mind.

How very sad,where was the father? did they even have a father?what is this world coming to ?To kill your brother over a video game,that will haunt him for the rest of his life be it in prison or on the streets ,If you can kill your own bro just think what he is capable of doing,what a pitty.

Just another example of where society is taking us.
Damn shame.........

thats really sad, i wonder how the lil kid felt, hes gonna have to live with that for the rest of his life, if he survives prison. . . the prisoners are gonna have fun with this kid. . . too bad too, such a waste of a jail cell, yet so freakin sad, the little kid stabbed his own brother.