Edward Kang, 20, allegedly flew from Newark, New Jersey to Jacksonville, Florida to confront the unnamed sufferer after a dispute via the web fantasy online game referred to as ArcheAge, Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper said in a news conference. Â
“This is a bizarre one,” Leeper mentioned. “Some issues make you say ‘Hmm.’ Some issues, you simply cannot make up. There are some issues that make you say ‘What on the earth was he considering?’ And there are some issues that make you say ‘You’re not going to consider this.’ This case makes you say all 4 of these.”Â
Leeper mentioned that Kang flew from Newark Liberty International Airport to Jacksonville International Airport and stayed on the Ocean Coast Hotel in Fernandina Beach since Friday. Once in Florida, Kang went to an Ace Hardware and bought a hammer and flashlight, Leeper mentioned. Receipts for the objects had been present in his lodge room.Â
Kang was in a position to enter the sufferer’s residence in Fernandina Beach as a result of the entrance door was unlocked, in keeping with Leeper. Kang, sporting all-black clothes, gloves and a masks, attacked the sufferer, and the 2 ended up struggling on the bottom, the sheriff mentioned.Â
Nassau County Sheriff’s Office
Deputies had been referred to as to the house by the sufferer’s stepfather, who reported being woke up by his stepson’s screams for assist. He advised police he discovered his stepson on the bottom combating Kang.Â
Police discovered a “important quantity of blood” within the entryway of the house and within the sufferer’s bed room, Leeper mentioned.Â
Both Kang and the sufferer had been taken to an space hospital. The sufferer sustained “extreme head wounds,” however they weren’t life-threatening, Leeper mentioned. He has since been launched from the hospital. Kang was launched into the custody of the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office.Â
Kang allegedly advised a deputy that the sufferer is “a foul particular person on-line,” Leeper mentioned, and requested how a lot time in jail he would possibly serve for breaking, getting into and assault.Â
“I might say, ‘Mr. Kang, it’ll be a very long time earlier than you play video video games once more,'” Leeper mentioned.Â
Kang is just not cooperating with the investigation and stays within the Nassau County Jail, Leeper mentioned. Jail information present that Kang has additionally been charged with armed housebreaking, along with the cost of tried second-degree homicide. Both are felony fees.Â
Leeper mentioned that the incident serves as a reminder that on-line altercations can spill over into the true world and harassed that folks ought to train warning on-line, report suspicious conduct, and maintain houses securely locked.Â