An online video game dispute spanning across states turned violent as a man hopped on a flight to Florida to attack another gamer with a hammer, police said.
“This is a weird one… some things you just can’t make up.” Florida’s Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper said on Monday.
Edward Kang, 20, of New Jersey, was taken to Nassau County Jail on an attempted second-degree murder charge after an online altercation with a gamer in Florida prompted him to fly to the state to confront the unnamed victim, authorities aid.
Kang boarded a Delta flight from Newark, New Jersey, at 7.35pm to Jacksonville International Airport in Florida that landed early morning on June 21. Kang then took an Uber to Ocean Coast Hotel in Fernandina Beach, where he was staying, telling his family before he left that he was going to visit a friend he met years ago through an online video game.
From late Saturday night to early Sunday morning, the victim was playing an online video game in his bedroom at a residence in Fernandina Beach, police said.