19 year old Anthony William Ibach was sentenced to seven years in prison after stabbing 19 year old Cory Alan Vaughn to death in Sebastopol, California on April 21, 2018. The stabbing stemmed from a dispute over the sale of a “PlayStation video game” that a friend of Vaughn’s was trying to sell on social media.

According to reports, Ibach wanted to buy the game, but Vaughn’s friend sold it to a higher bidder instead. Vaughn, apparently defending his friend from Ibach, then fought Ibach in a parking lot. During the fight, Ibach brandished a knife and used it to stab Vaughn to death. Vaughn died from his injuries in the parking lot.

“My son truly was someone who stood up and wouldn’t allow someone to bully anyone,” Vaughn’s father Alan told reporters. Alan was unhappy with the judge’s decision to only give Ibach seven years in prison. Describing the sentence as a “slap on the wrist,” Alan said, “This is bull****! Six f***ing years for taking my son’s life!” While prosecutors were seeking a murder conviction, Ibach was instead convicted of voluntary manslaughter and use of a knife outside of a residence - offenses that carry a maximum prison time of 12 years.

Ibach’s defense attorney Joseph Bisbiglia was successful in avoiding a murder conviction and getting a short prison term for his client by arguing that the stabbing was in self-defense. “He understands the family’s loss,” Bisbiglia said of his client, also telling the judge that Ibach showed “remorse and sorrow.”

Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time someone has died over the sale of a video game or video game console. For example, in June of 2019, a 16 year old boy was shot and killed in front of his father while trying to sell his Xbox One.

In another instance, a video game sale turned into a robbery in Detroit, Michigan. The alleged thief shot a teenage boy in the face, which prompted the teenager’s father to respond by shooting the robber, killing him. At the time of this writing, police are reportedly still investigating whether or not the shooting of the teenage thief was justified or not.

Source: KPIX 5 CBS SF BayArea