Run-away boy "lured by gamers", part of a "clan"

[Pekka]

Comrande, Not wrong, I said MOST... surely there are sexual predators out for kids that age, but most true pedophiles go for younger fields. Adn if a 15 year old can't take care of themselves, they should take Karate classes like Daniel La Russo.

[Kuciwalker]

For the record, Jaguar actually is my twin.

[Asher]

Isn't that incest?

[Main_Brain]

Originally posted by Asher
T for Teen I think.

I just learned the whole CoD Series is 18+ here.

[Asher]

Well, ****.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/531082

Missing Barrie teen's body found

Nov 05, 2008 12:59 PM
thestar.com staff

The body of 15-year-old Brandon Crisp, the 15-year-old Barrie boy who fought with his parents over video games, has been found.

Reports early this afternoon said the boy's body was found near the place where his bicycle was discovered shortly after he disappeared.

He went missing on Thanksgiving day after arguing with his parents about his Xbox gaming.

Stay with thestar.com for more details.

[CrONoS]

Edit:

I wouldn't want to be the father... he must be devastated.

[Lazerus]

Ouch that's going to be some harsh guilt he'll heap on himself.

[chequita guevara]

He get hit by a car?

Oh, looks more like death from exposure.

[Asher]

No idea, but I'd doubt that. It's not a bustling area.

Latest update:

The body of Brandon Crisp, the 15-year-old Barrie boy who fought with his parents over video games, has been found.

Police said early this afternoon that hunters found the body near the Fourth Line in Oro-Medonte Township northeast of Barrie.

The teen was last seen Oct. 13 after he ran away from home when his parents took away his Xbox console because of what they said was his addiction to the online game “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

Sgt. Dave Goodbrand of Barrie Police said this afternoon that police have to work with the OPP and medical examiners before they can officially confirm that the body found is Brandon's.

However, students at Brandon's school, St. Joseph's High School in Barrie, were told the sad news at a special assembly this afternoon.

Many were in tears as they left the school.

Goodbrand also said that Brandon's parents had been notified. “They’re obviously distraught by the information,” he said.

Police had said that a woman saw Brandon on two occasions along a trail several kilometres from his home on the night he disappeared, and she noted the boy appeared to be having trouble with his bicycle.

His abandoned mountain bike was found in the area Oct. 20.

As the weather grew colder and snow began falling, police began a massive aerial, marine and ground search effort in the Shanty Bay area — about four kilometres from Brandon's home — near where the body was found today.

Hundreds of volunteers also aided in the search, but no trace of the boy was found at the time.

Police had received more than 1,000 tips, but failed to find any meaningful clues to the boy's whereabouts.

Two local media companies, including the Barrie Advance, where the boy’s mother works, had put up $20,000 in reward money for information to help locate the teen. Software giant Microsoft, which manufactures the Xbox, later increased that amount to $50,000.

Brandon's disappearance prompted a huge outpouring of support from across the country.

A Facebook group with nearly 22,000 members was created, and within a half-hour of the news of the discovery of the body, there were already 100 messages of condolence.

Early this afternoon, on the east side of Oro-Medonte Line 4, an OPP helicopter made low, tight circles over a cornfield. It is an area believed to have been canvassed extensively during various search efforts.

Forensic officers set up a command post at a farmhouse, which backs onto the cornfield.

Police offices on four-wheelers were canvassing the surrounding woods and fields.

[Sirotnikov]

crap....

he must have REALLY loved his x-box

[OneFootInTheGrave]

uhhhhh

[Asher]

The Xbox 360 is to die for.

(Too soon?)

[Lazerus]

lol

I'd been waiting for some kind of pure pwnage "boom headshot!" from another clan remark.

[Asher]

Hypothermia, no foul play:

http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/532437

Hypothermia suspected in Brandon Crisp's death

Robyn Doolittle
Staff Reporter


The body was resting in reeds nearly as tall as the deer hunters who found it.

The hunter who stumbled upon the grim find picked up his walkie-talkie and radioed the others who were scattered around the bush.

"I found something," he said in a shaky voice. "It's a boy, 15, maybe 14. His shoes are on. There's a backpack."

They immediately knew who it was – Brandon Crisp.

Brandon's fully clothed body appeared so neat, his clothing so unsullied, the hunters thought that, although he'd clearly been there a while, he couldn't possibly have been out there for three weeks, the time he'd been missing since running away from his Barrie home Thanksgiving Monday.

He looked to be at peace – something that would be consistent with hypothermia, which some investigators are quietly speculating could well have been the cause of death.

A post-mortem is scheduled for today.

Brandon was last seen about three kilometres southwest of where the group, local men who had set out around 9:30 a.m, was hunting deer.

"We'd only been out there about 20 minutes," said one of the men.

They were hunting in a wooded area between Oro-Medonte line 4 and 5, about a kilometre north of the Oro trail. The woods are bordered by cornfields and tall, brown grass, the perfect hiding place for deer. And Brandon's body.

"You could have missed it even from five feet away," the hunter said. "It's heartbreaking. It shouldn't have ended this way," he said, his eyes filling with tears.

The hunters called OPP from one of the men's nearby homes. Police arrived around 10:30 a.m. and the homeowner drove the detectives to the site on his ATV.

Police have said they aren't ruling out anything, but based on preliminary evidence they aren't expecting this to be homicide. Sources familiar with the case said a leading theory is that the boy became disoriented and died of hypothermia, an abnormally low body temperature.

Brandon ran away after his parents took away his Xbox. Angelika and Steve Crisp later explained the Grade 10 student had become addicted to a popular online game, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

Infuriated, the teen threatened to leave. Sure the boy was bluffing, Steve helped Brandon pack his bag.

"I really thought he would be home later that day with his tail between his legs," the distraught father told the Star two weeks ago.

The 15-year-old was last seen on a biking trail between Barrie and Orillia, between Oro-Medonte Line 2 and 3. Hundreds of local volunteers and police scoured the region, combing through acres of brush between Line 1 and Line 10. But, said Sgt. Dave Goodbrand, the focus was always on the area near the trail.

Civilian-led search teams had canvassed the area where the body was found, but the ground is marsh-like and the terrain uneven.

Marguerite Watson had been out searching too, but she and her husband, Roy, are elderly and could only watch the roads. It was at the very back of her property, past the cornfield, that Brandon was found. OPP set up a command post at the farm.

"All along. All this time," she said, her voice cracking. "A 15-year-old boy was found on our property. You have no idea how upsetting ..."

In town, students gathered for a morning mass at St. Joseph's High School. Principal Matt McCann said Wednesday was one of the toughest days of his career.

"I feel very numb," he said. "We knew when the police came to get the girls (Crisp's sisters who are students at the school) in the morning that that wasn't a good sign."

At about 12:30 p.m. officers contacted the school and confirmed McCann's worst fears. "We took about 20 minutes to figure out what we were going to say and then called everyone together," he said.

Dumb kid.

[Xorbon]

Update: Autopsy Results

Apparently he was climbing a tree.

Autopsy shows Brandon Crisp died from fall

The Canadian Press

November 8, 2008 at 2:27 PM EST

TORONTO — Investigators believe it's likely Ontario teen Brandon Crisp died after falling from a tree in the rural area northeast of Barrie, Ont., but they're not sure yet how long he survived in the outdoors before perishing.

Autopsy results on the body of the teen, found just over three weeks after he ran away from home, reveal he died of injuries to the chest.

A post-mortem examination, conducted at the Chief Coroners Office in Toronto, state the injuries are consistent with falling from a tree.

“(Provincial police are) still at the scene trying to piece together the hours leading up to his death,” said Barrie police Sgt. Dave Goodbrand. “We're assisting them in trying to build a timeline and determine exactly why he was where he was and what led to his death.”

Using dental records, coroners confirmed the body found Wednesday in a wooded area by hunters was that of the 15-year-old. While they say his body was located beside a tree, they haven't yet determined a time of death, or how long his body was there.

Police released the information Saturday after giving the findings to his family Friday night.

“It's a very difficult time for them, they're taking it very hard,” Sgt. Goodbrand said. “This is tragic news for everybody involved.”

Police have also now ruled out foul play.

Brandon's parents say he fled home following a dispute with them over his obsessive Xbox video gaming habits.

Police and civilians conducted several ground searches, but failed to turn up meaningful clues.

The ten-days police spent scouring an area around Brandon's last sighting did not cover the area where he was found.

“We had not searched that area and that really wasn't the area we were focused on, we based our search on the area where he was last seen,” Sgt. Goodbrand said.

Brandon's parents are expected to make a statement early to mid-week.

His funeral is planned for 10 a.m. Friday at St. Mary's Church in Barrie, Ont.