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Man kills baby over Ghost Recon.

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Trial for father in killing of tot who broke video game
By Julie Shaw
Inquirer Staff Writer

This was Tyrone Spellman's explanation to police: He "snapped" after he thought his daughter had broken a $600 Xbox game console.

Alayiah Turman was only 17 months old, born March 29, 2005. Spellman beat her to death, prosecutors say.

In an alleged confession read at his preliminary hearing yesterday, Spellman, 25, said he was playing one of Tom Clancy's "Ghost Recon" games - a violent combat epic - in a front bedroom of his family's Brewerytown home that Thursday morning, Sept. 7. He had taken Alayiah into the room so her mother, Mia Turman, could rest.

"She pulled the cord and the whole game console fell over," Spellman said in his statement, read by Homicide Detective John Cummings. "I thought it was broken. I popped her in the face. I picked her up and tossed her in a chair."

Later that day - at 12:37 p.m. - Alayiah was pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital.

Spellman, also known as Anwar Salahuddin, was held for trial by order of Municipal Court Judge Gerard A. Kosinski on charges of murder, endangering the welfare of a child, and related offenses.

Alayiah's slaying was one of several child deaths examined by The Inquirer in an October article on the city Department of Human Services and its oversight of child-abuse and neglect cases.

DHS visited Spellman's rowhouse on the 1500 block of North 29th Street twice in August - each time seeing only the baby's mother, Mia Turman, 21, and Alayiah, inside. Turman told the agency that no one else lived there.

In September, Cheryl Ransom-Garner, then DHS commissioner, told The Inquirer that a social worker had reported the child looked happy and had no bruises. But Turman's mother, Marvine Turman, told The Inquirer that she had seen bruises on the child.

Yesterday's hearing focused on the injuries Alayiah suffered on the day she died.

In his statement, Spellman said that after he tossed his daughter in a chair, he put her on a bed. He then went to tell Turman, who was eight months pregnant and sleeping in a different bedroom, that he was going to a store to get "something to smoke and something to eat."

When he returned, Spellman said, Keith Walker - identified after the hearing by Spellman's supporters as a tenant in the house - told him that Alayiah "fell and had blood on her nose."

Spellman called 911 while Walker tried to resuscitate her.

Mia Turman testified yesterday, her voice at times nervous, as Spellman stared at her. Turman and Alayiah had moved into Spellman's house about a month before the child's death.

Turman testified that Spellman woke her about noon Sept. 7 and that, when she saw Alayiah, the baby's nose was bleeding, "the side of her face was bruised," and "she wasn't breathing."

Under cross-examination by Spellman's lawyer, Bobby Hoof, Turman agreed that Spellman had told her Alayiah had fallen off a bed and had been found lying on a barbell.

Edwin Lieberman, the city assistant medical examiner who performed Alayiah's autopsy, testified that in addition to bruises around her head, Alayiah suffered "tremendous injury" inside her head "caused by at minimum three separate blows" to the right side, top and back of her skull.

Alayiah's skull was fractured to the point that a piece of bone had fallen out, he said.

When asked by Assistant District Attorney Yvonne Ruiz what could have caused Alayiah's internal head injuries, Lieberman testified that a fist could have caused them or her head could have struck a smooth surface, such as a tabletop, wall or floor.

Under cross-examination, Lieberman dismissed Hoof's suggestions. "A simple fall as you are suggesting from a bed would not cause a skull fracture," he said. Nor, he said, would falling on a weight.

After the hearing, Turman, surrounded by relatives, let off her anger toward Spellman, who she said showed no remorse.

"My baby don't deserve that," she said.

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
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Oh Philly...
 
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This was Tyrone Spellman's explanation to police: He "snapped" after he thought his daughter had broken a $600 Xbox game console.
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???

Terrible story. I was just reading books with my little one. Makes me ill to read about bastards like this.

Sapiens said:
xbox owners...
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W T F
 
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That sick **** needs to die as soon as possible.
 
xaosslug

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GAMING: it's serious business.

seriously though, hardest of the hardcore gamers are certifiably insane, imo. If you accidentally delete their save file while freeing up space on the memory card, they will cry... and when they're done, proceed to cut your ass.
 
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Sapiens said:
xbox owners...
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You're a douchebag.

I believe it, you should see some of these dudes on GRAW, these cats have major rage issues. Eye for an Eye baby someone give him three blows to the head with a steel bat.
 
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Stench

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Why are stupid people drawn towards video games so much?

Is it the dumb man's art form? Because that's what I'm starting to think.
 
Sapiens

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I had some guy get mad at me in GRAW for shooting at him by accident- REALLY mad - he said he was going to write down my live tag and hunt me down.

Maybe this was him

So I dont have to worry anymore
 
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Wow, I mean, I would feel pretty frustrated if that happened, but shit, that's plain horrible. Seventh circle of hell confirmed.
 
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I seriously feel sick after reading this.

Damnit why'd I click on this thread?!
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Same. I was just laughing my ass off at a thread on the OT 10 seconds ago, and now this. Jesus H. Mood swing FTL.
 
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Ok, I love my country, but we need to start looking at punishment differently. Here's what I propose. Any type of murder, rape, theft, or embezzelment warrants an automatic death penalty. Who's with me?!
 
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BobLoblaw said:
Ok, I love my country, but we need to start looking at punishment differently. Here's what I propose. Any type of murder, rape, theft, or embezzelment warrants an automatic death penalty. Who's with me?!
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That's a little extreme. I'd say 6 months in jail tops.
 
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Spellman, 25, said he was playing one of Tom Clancy's "Ghost Recon" games - a violent combat epic -
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hooray for the media pointing out the violence in the videogame. It's a good thing they brought this up, because nobody ever beat or abused children until these violent videogames came around.
 
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Sapiens said:
I had some guy get mad at me in GRAW for shooting at him by accident- REALLY mad - he said he was going to write down my live tag and hunt me down.
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That's the point where you constantly pop a bullet or two in his arse every 5 mins.

"I'm keeping you on the edge bro!"
 
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Humanity continues to progress in their downward spiral.

Keep it up, losers.

I am, of course, talking about the forgotten abortion that Tyrone Spellman is.
 
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Oh man, at first I thought it was a little kid who killed his younger sibling but then I read the article and it says father. Wow. Do they have the death penalty in Pennsylvania?
 
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Brashnir said:
hooray for the media pointing out the violence in the videogame. It's a good thing they brought this up, because nobody ever beat or abused children until these violent videogames came around.
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Its not like he called an air strike on her.

But seriously, this world is ****ed up.
 
Sapiens

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speedpop said:
That's the point where you constantly pop a bullet or two in his arse every 5 mins.

"I'm keeping you on the edge bro!"
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I was playing it for the first time ever - I had no idea what I was doing

I shot him once

he went insane.

Im pretty sure this was the same dude here.

I can finally sleep at night knowing he's behind bars getting reemed.
 
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