• Grimy@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The kid was having issues, he was just given a diagnosis for anxiety and other stuff and he was seeing a therapist yet his parents left a loaded gun somewhere he could access and use within seconds.

  • TragicNotCute@lemmy.world
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    Dude made a hunch of bots based on Game of Thrones and “fell in love” with the mother of dragons.

    The complaint states that Garcia took her son’s phone away after he got in trouble at school. She found a message to “Daenerys” that read, “What if I told you I could come home right now?”

    The chatbot responded with, “[P]lease do, my sweet king.” Sewell shot himself with his stepfather’s pistol “seconds” later, the lawsuit said.

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    I’m sure family issues weren’t the cause, and the chat bot wasn’t a symptom. /s