“Gamer rage” is not just a slang term, it is a real psychotic phenomenon that occurs to video gamers. Documented by the American Psychological Association In a 2023 paper.
Maricopa police arrested two violent gamers in quick succession Tuesday night. One vandalized her mother's home, and the other used refried beans as a weapon and threatened her sister with a gang of girls, according to a police report.
just 2 weeks after this Another man's video game anger led to arrest on charges of assault, reckless display of a firearm, interfering with emergency telephone use and disorderly conduct.
Police arrested 18-year-old Carlos J. Brizuela on Tuesday at his Desert Passage home on domestic violence charges of assault and menacing and two counts of disorderly conduct, according to a probable cause report.
Police responded to the North Clarence Lane home at 8:45 p.m. and found Brizuela's sister shaken. She said her brother was engrossed in a video game when he tried to throw an open can of refried beans at her bedroom door.
The mother witnessed Brizuela having sex with her sister and showed police a text message Brizuela sent her that read, “If a girl is going to hit my daughter, you'll know why.”
Brizuela admitted that she wanted to hurt her sister and threatened to find the girls and “jump” her sister. He was arrested around 9:30 p.m. and booked into the Pinal County Jail, where he will serve a year and a half in prison.
Hours later, police arrested another agrogamer in Tortosa for allegedly vandalizing his mother's house.
Brenden G. Umberger, 24, was arrested on two domestic violence charges: criminal damage and disorderly conduct.
Police were called to the West Velasquez Street home after Umberger's brother reported a disturbance. Officers found three second-floor doors ripped off their hinges, broken in half and thrown down a staircase, as well as shattered glass shelves, a shattered sliding glass door and holes punched out. They found walls, a shattered television and other damaged items.
Police estimated the damage at about $3,000.
Umberger told officers that he was playing video games on the second floor when he became enraged and began punching the wall. Police said the man had fresh wounds to his arms, wrists, knuckles and legs.
Police arrested Umberger and booked him into the Pinal County Jail, where he will serve a year and a half in prison.
