TEEN JAILED FOR APP: 15-year-old Faces 20 Years For YouTube Video of Shooting Game [View all]
It just never seems to end: a student a H. L. Bourgeois High School has been accused of using a mobile phone app to simulate shooting his classmates. He was arrested, booked and jailed in Terrebonne Parish in Gray, LA last week. Hes now facing up to 20 years in prison for his.
The video the student made was with a perfectly legal app called The Real Strike. On the iTunes store description, it says: Warning!!!: Do not use real guns in the real world!!! Let guns only exist in the apps!
So whats the problem? The 15-year-old who created the video with the app is charged with terrorism.
Local WGNO reports that it simulates a first person shooter game, except the battleground is real life.
With all the school shooting weve had in the United States, its just not a very good game to be playing at this time, Wolfe explained.
But the boys parents told investigators that their son took the video down when requested, and has never had any access to firearms.
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