Jakarta –
Terrifying! A 10 year old boy in Mexico shot dead another boy just because he beat him in a video game.
Reported by the news agency AFP, Thursday (19/1/2023), this tragic incident occurred in the violent state of Veracruz in eastern Mexico. The boy took a gun from his family home, and shot the 11-year-old victim in the head last Sunday after getting angry at a rental shop. video game.
After shooting the victim dead, the child and his family then fled.
“All I ask is that you help me get justice,” the victim’s mother told reporters at her funeral on Tuesday (17/1) local time.
“My child died because the parents of the child who killed my child were irresponsible by leaving a firearm on the table,” he added.
Veracruz is one of the most violent states in Mexico due to a turf war between drug dealers.
More than 340,000 people have died across the Latin American country since the government deployed the military in the war against drugs in 2006.
(it/it)
