Devin Moore (murderer)

Devin Moore (born Devin Darnell Thompson on May 15, 1985) is an American convicted murderer from Alabama who sparked a controversy about video games after he gained control of a police officer's service pistol while under arrest in a police station in Fayette, Alabama, and used it to kill three law enforcement officers on June 7, 2003. He then escaped the scene in a stolen police cruiser. When he was later captured, Moore was quoted as saying "Life is a video game. Everybody's got to die sometime."

In the following trial, Moore's defense strategy was to argue that Moore was not guilty by reason of serious mental defect. They asserted that his repeated playing of the video game ''Grand Theft Auto'' had incited his shooting spree and that he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder following parental abuse by his father. The controversial video game theory was highlighted in an episode of the news magazine television series ''60 Minutes'' on March 4, 2005.

Moore was convicted on October 9, 2005, and was sentenced to death by lethal injection. As of July 2013, he remained on death row and was appealing his sentence. Provided by Wikipedia