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Man kills his son over a missing videogame (facepalm) photo

A forty-year-old man becoming enraged beyond reason over a missing videogame is worrying enough, but when you find out he's prepared to kill his family for it, things enter a whole new level of disturbing. Ofelio Antonio Otero has surrendered himself to police after an argument with his wife and 17-year-old son ended with the latter shot dead.

The forty-year-old was drunk and arguing with his wife at 4:15am in Houston this past weekend over a videogame, of all things. His son joined the fight, and that's when Otera started loading his gun. According to the police report, 17-year-old Ignacio A. Otero tried to knock the gun from his father's grip and then make a run for it. Otera then shot his son as he was running, hitting the boy in the neck. 

As Otero's son died, he fled the scene. He was eventually tracked to an apartment complex about 2½ miles away, where a three-hour stand off with Houston's SWAT Team ensued. He finally gave himself up and is now facing a murder charge that will add to his prior criminal record, which includes a DWI charge. 

Shooting his own fleeing son in the back. Brave, heroic man is Mr. Otero.


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MrSadistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:03
MrSadistic
The title pretty much states the expression I had when I read an article about that incident last night.
Xzyliac's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:05
Xzyliac
The forty-year-old was drunk

Videogames are bad.
Overcrowd's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:07
Overcrowd
I'm curious as to what game it was...

But fuck that guy. Hope he enjoys his prison gangraping.
Bigmoose85's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:07
Bigmoose85
i guess im the only one who laughed & said natural selection strikes again!
mrandydixon's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:07
mrandydixon
That's fucked up.

Is it morbid of me to wonder what game it was?
mrandydixon's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:08
mrandydixon
@Aurion

Great minds think alike.
Death by Yeti's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:08
Death by Yeti
This is nothing but more proof that videogames should be removed from the planet
They will never be anything more than children's toys
SilversunFrenzy's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:08
SilversunFrenzy
Clearly there are deeper issues here than the video game, but guess what's gonna attract people's attention. uggh
Always Ten Feet Tall's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:09
Always Ten Feet Tall
i bet it was over the saw videogame.
Danzflor's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:10
Danzflor
I fucking hate when in news like this the word "Videogame" it's "involved"in some way... It just doesn't help...

And because those FUcktards i's why we can't have nice things
Wheatspin's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:10
Wheatspin
@ Bigmoose85... Natural selection? It's the kid's stupidity for having an alcoholic and severely disturbed father, you're right. Dude you're a fucking ignorant stupid shit.
GoldenGamerXero's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:10
GoldenGamerXero
Good lord. That's disgusting. I can't believe someone as careless as that was allowed to be running around in public at all.
bbrigg1's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:13
bbrigg1
@Wheat

Well, it is Texas. If he gets the death sentence, it would kind of be natural selection. But the kid dying would kind of cancel that out, I guess.
Carlton Banks's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:15
Carlton Banks
The Picard facepalm could use a rest kiddies.
dwolfwood's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:17
dwolfwood
That's beyond fucked up. There's a special place in hell for people like this, and it has nothing to do with videogames.
Bigmoose85's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:18
Bigmoose85
@Wheatspin

but if the kid(seventeen year old a.k.a he is a man) knew his old man was a alcoholic and severely disturbed then he wouldnt have got in his face.

Another bites the dust.
IPRODUCTIONS's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:19
IPRODUCTIONS
typical people you don't kill people over a missing game you kill them when they delete your game saves GET IT RIGHT!
runtheplacered's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:20
runtheplacered
@ Bigmoose85,

You're kind of a moron, huh? Do you even know what natural selection means? Apparently not.

And as it turns out you may actually be the only one that laughed over a teenager that was shot dead after trying to (it sounds like ) protect his mother.

Idiot.
Bigmoose85's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:20
Bigmoose85
@IPRODUCTIONS

lol :P
Cataract's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:20
Cataract
What a fucking scumbag.
bluexy's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:21
bluexy
This is just too sad. :(
GoldenGamerXero's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:22
GoldenGamerXero
@Bigmoose85

I don't think you understand.

HE HAD A GUN AND WAS VERY DRUNK.

The guy might have killed him and his mother if that kid didn't do something. Either you didn't read the article very well or you're a complete douche man.
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:22
Jon B
He won't last in prison. That's all I'm going to say.
Czech Monster's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:22
Czech Monster
@ Bigmoose85,

what an ignorant fuck you are.
runtheplacered's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:23
runtheplacered
@ GoldenGamerXero,

After reading two of his responses, it's fairly clear he's just being a douchebag. And he also doesn't know what the words "natural" and "selection" means. Ironically nature didn't select him to be very intelligent.
ChickenNow's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:25
ChickenNow
@dwolfwood lol @ 12 year old that believes there is some sort of justice system in the afterlife. But hey, if believing in that stuff makes you feel better keep it up by all means necessary.

@Bigmoose You're a retard, nuff said. No matter how or where, a young man dead at that age is absolutely horrible. I would love to see you in the same situation, trying to protect yourself and your mother from a drunken fucknut ready to bust a cap in your head. And when the fucknut happens to be your father, I'm pretty sure things get even worse.
Tarvu's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:25
Tarvu
Hey, Wheatspin, lrn2Darwin.

It's Natural Selection because the father is stupid enough to remove himself from the gene pool by killing his (assumed) only (assumed) son. The son carried his father's genetics that made him more likely to be a drunken video game murderer.

It's not a nice things to say, but at least is has scientific merit.
Bigmoose85's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:28
Bigmoose85
@runtheplacered

i like to throw that word around alot :P

as for the kid(man), just another drop in the bucket. sorry im on "i dont give a fucks" today :P
runtheplacered's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:28
runtheplacered
@Tarvu,

That's not what natural selection means. Nowhere in the definition does it say anything about killing your offspring. Natural Selection has to do with having certain traits that allow you to survive and reproduce more successfully then another organism.

Don't say lrn2Darwin and then just make shit up as you go. That's pretty stupid.
XanderSan's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:29
XanderSan
I kind of want to make a joke about making sure my special edition PAL copy of ZOE2 was still here, but actually this is pretty much too horrible to lighten up.

What a dick.
MCChampaignMillionaire's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:29
MCChampaignMillionaire
Some of you americans are a bunch of douchebags -.-
Bigmoose85's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:30
Bigmoose85
@Tarvu

it seems someone was reading my mind :P
pl0x kthanxbai's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:30
pl0x kthanxbai
that guys simply wasting everyone else oxygen
Tarvu's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:33
Tarvu
It is Natural Selection. The traits that lead an organism to kill it's own offspring do not allow it to be more successful in reproducing. It's t'other end of the bell curve.
Xzyliac's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:34
Xzyliac
Bigmoose85 is pulling a serious Gene Eric with those smilies.
runtheplacered's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:35
runtheplacered
@ Tarvu,

sigh. No, this case if anything would be called man-made selection. This has nothing to do with nature selecting anything. HE selected this himself. Natural selection has nothing to do with this.

You may as well stop trying to stretch the definition right now. I can see where this is going, and you're going to try so hard to make a point. But I'm sorry man.. there's just no point here to be made. It was a dumb comment by Bigmoose. Don't get all involved in it.
Bigmoose85's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:37
Bigmoose85
@ChickenNow

I would never be in that type of situation... as i dad doesn't drink or live with me. if anything it would be me doing the shooting but i fear jail to much to really do those types of thing. so i just use my fists :P

I know i sound like a douchebag but if you were to ever know me personally, you would understand.
TheLegendaryMan's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:38
TheLegendaryMan
I just heard the game that they were Fighting over was Fight Club

MOTHERFUCKE-
SaintRasmus's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:38
SaintRasmus
Only in America. !!!
Tarvu's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:39
Tarvu
It depends how much you would argue people are determined by their genetics.

I'm just saying, I see Natural Selection here. I'm not trying to stir up anger over an unfortunate incident.
Memox's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:39
Memox
who the fuck cares if it's natural selection or not, This is a very shitty behavior anyway
SuperMonk4Ever's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:39
SuperMonk4Ever
@Xzyliac

I was thinking the same thing...
Tarvu's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:41
Tarvu
Fight Club!? I had forgotten that game even existed. Wow.
Bigmoose85's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:41
Bigmoose85
@Memox

its just another form of Human behavior, nothing surprises me anymore.
stevenxonward's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:42
stevenxonward
Similar acts have been committed over pairs of tennis shoes. I don't think I've ever heard anyone blame murder on Nike.
runtheplacered's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:43
runtheplacered
@Tarvu,

I doubt you stirred up any anger. Somebody made a stupid comment. You came in and tried defending that stupid comment with things that aren't facts. I was pointing these things out as they happened. That's about it so far. Exciting.
TheStripe's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:44
TheStripe
@BigMoosebag - "I know i sound like a douchebag but if you were to ever know me personally, you would understand."

all we really have to do to know you're a douchbag is read your comments history. Just another white asshole with zero empathy and a spurious grip on reality.
dj-anon's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:44
dj-anon
@Carlton Banks:
The facepalm thing is starting to get stupid.
Sithinious's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 12:45
Sithinious
Wow. Please tell me they'll dump this guy in a casket and bury him alive instead of wasting money sending him to prison.
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