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WILMINGTON, N.C. - A young man accused of robbing a fellow college student of two new PlayStation 3 video game consoles was shot and killed - possibly while holding a game controller - by officers sent to arrest him.
Peyton Strickland, 18, was killed Friday at a house he shared with three roommates, Sheriff Sid Causey said.
Roommate Mike Rhoton said Strickland was unarmed when he got up from playing a Tiger Woods golf game but may have been holding a controller when he went to the door as officers bashed it in. Strickland's dog also was shot to death.
The sheriff said Strickland was shot by members of a specially trained team who went to help university officers serve arrest warrants. Causey said officers considered the arrest a high-risk situation.
"Anytime that someone beats a person severely and commits an armed robbery, I certainly would consider him a risk and a danger," Causey said.
The sheriff said the robbery victim waited in line for three days to buy the units for $641 each at a Wal-Mart. He was unloading them at his campus apartment when one man beat him to the ground while another took the consoles, Causey said.
The Associated Press
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link
He's supposed to be Koopa, and those guys behind him are supposed to be Goombas. That movie is so fucking weird.
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link