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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12:00 PM on 10.26.2009
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Videogames are bad.
But fuck that guy. Hope he enjoys his prison gangraping.
Is it morbid of me to wonder what game it was?
Great minds think alike.
They will never be anything more than children's toys
And because those FUcktards i's why we can't have nice things
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.
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.
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.
what an ignorant fuck you are.
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.
@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.
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.
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.
What a dick.
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.
MOTHERFUCKE-
I'm just saying, I see Natural Selection here. I'm not trying to stir up anger over an unfortunate incident.
I was thinking the same thing...
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.
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.
The facepalm thing is starting to get stupid.
I may have a warped take on Natural selection since I probably first met it when reading the Darwin Awards many years ago.
This is going to be media ammo for quite some time.