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Sep 26, 2006 8:05 am US/Central

'Grand Theft Auto' Blamed For Shooting

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ― A lawsuit alleges that one of the "Grand Theft Auto" video games contributed to the shooting deaths of three people on newsman Sam Donaldson's New Mexico ranch.

Codey Posey was 14 when he shot his father, stepmother and stepsister to death in July 2004.

Now, relatives of the victims have filed a 600-(m)-million-dollar lawsuit against several companies and Posey, who was sentenced to state custody until he's 21.

Posey's lawyers had said he had been abused for years and killed in self-defense.

But a wrongful death lawsuit claims Posey played "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" "obsessively" for several months before the killings. The lawsuit says the game taught Posey how to kill without inhibition and that if he hadn't played, "he would not have killed."

The plaintiffs include Take-Two Interactive Software, which says the suit is without merit.

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