10. Grand Theft Auto? Not as fun in real life

There's a reason it's called a video game. It's supposed to be a FANTASY.

Here’s a case that has become notorious for some the most gruesome deaths related to gaming.

In 2003, 18-year-old Devin Moore went on a violent rampage that would chill anyone who has ever enjoyed the Grand Theft Auto series. Moore’s crime spree began when he was taken to a police station for what was suspected to be his theft of a car. Moore freaked out, grabbed officer Arnold Strickland’s gun, and shot him dead. Alerted by the gunfire, officer James Crump rushed into a hallway to apprehend Moore, but the boy shot him to death, too. Moore proceeded down the hallway, entered the room of a 911 dispatcher, and killed Ace Mealer.

The teenager then stole some car keys, and used a police cruiser to escape. He was eventually captured.

According to reports, Moore used the following statement to explain his actions to the police: “Life is like a video game. Everybody’s got to die sometime.”

Moore was an avid Grand Theft Auto fan. In the trial that followed, Moore’s defense claimed that the he couldn’t be held responsible for the killings because the game had eradicated his ability to tell reality from fiction. The controversy allowed influential personalities to denounce the game as a “murder simulator,” and put violent video games in the limelight.

Moore was eventually sentenced to be executed by lethal injection.