I've been playing this game since the first one on PS1.. I havent killed anyone.

This dude grabbed a cop's gun and shot 3 cops with it, then fled in a stolen police car? That's like 8000 points.

sounds like bullshit to me i'd kill a citizen before a cop how selfrighteous

You could rewrite this article by replacing references to GTA with ABC News.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. Feb 15, 2005 — A lawsuit claims the ABC News program led a teenager to shoot two police officers and a dispatcher to death in 2003, mirroring violent acts depicted in the popular newscast.

The suit announced Tuesday seeks damages from the programs prodcers and two stores that allegedly showed it to Devin Thompson, now 18.

An attorney for relatives of two of the victims said Thompson, who is charged with murder, had watched ABC news repeatedly.

Thompson is accused of killing the three men in June 2003 after being brought to the Fayette police station on suspicion of driving a stolen car. Thompson allegedly grabbed one of the officer's guns, shot him and the other two, then fled in a patrol car.

The suit alleges Thompson watched ABC News at the Gamestop in Jasper and ABC World News at the Jasper Wal-Mart when he was under 17. The programs, which depict police killings and other acts of violence, are rated M, meaning they are appropriate for those 17 or older.

'What has happened in Alabama is that four companies participated in the training of Devin … to kill three men,' attorney Jack Thompson told The Tuscaloosa News, which reported the suit's filing.

At a December hearing, authorities said Devin Thompson, when he was apprehended, told officers, 'Life is a news cast. You've got to die sometime.'

Good work Thorstein! I do that in my head all the time when I listen to Bush talk about insurgents.
Fucking hipocrits.

Reporting violent acts is completely different than encoraging a person to repeat the acts over and over again in elaborate life-like practice sessions. Absent parents don't realize their kids are being desensatized and brainwashed.

Life is NOT a video game, there is no Reset button to restore the lives he took.

too true... i was once sucked into a super realistic computer world from which i almost never escaped.

Superman,

Problem 1 with that argument.: Gamesindustry.biz is reporting that Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has sold more than 3.6 million copies and is still going strong. This brings the GTA franchise close to the 40 million mark. (As of Dec 10, 2004)

One dikhed who shoots police is NOT indicative of the influence of a vid. game. 40 mil gta games sold. Should these cock-a-mamy theories hold any water, then there would be far more incidents like this.

Just like the Beatles were not responsible for Charles Manson.
Marilyn Manson was not responsible for Columbine.