"Gaming appears to have been an important part of Arizona shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner's life." WSJ has more. In the 7th grade, he and a pal began playing the online action roleplaying games Starcraft and Diablo, then moved on to the text-based "Earth: 2025," now apparently called "Earth Empires." No surprises here: the postings he made to gaming messageboards are rapey, hatey, creepy.
The gaming messageboard postings of Jared Lee Loughner
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