A 28-year-old in California shot his mother in the head after a dispute during which his video game headset was broken, police said.
Matthew Nicholson lived in Modesto, California, a city some 75 miles east of San Francisco. He was playing video games in his bedroom on Thursday, Jan. 11, when he got upset and started yelling, the Ceres Police Department stated in a press release. His mother, 68, went to check on him. The two got into an argument during which Nicholson broke his headset and blamed it on the mother.