Deltona, Fla.
Four Florida men were accused this week of beating six people to death with aluminum baseball bats because they thought one of them had stolen a video game system. Volusia County Sheriff Ben Johnson called the grisly murders “the worst thing we’ve ever seen.” Police said the ringleader, Troy Victorino, had been a squatter in a vacant house owned by the family of Erin Belanger, one of the dead. Victorino, 27, thought Belanger, 22, had taken his Xbox game system and some clothes he had left behind, and allegedly rounded up three friends to help him get revenge. Prison officials fired four probation officers after discovering that Victorino, an ex-convict, should have been jailed on a parole violation days earlier.
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