A 14-year-old student at a Christian academy in Washington state has
been charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting both of his
parents in the head after they restricted him from playing violent
video games.

Grant County prosecutors on Monday said that they were asking that
14-year-old Nathan Brooks be tried as an adult for the attempted
murder of his parents.

According to a Moses Lake police report obtained by iFIBER One News,
Nathon Brooks had considered killing his parents, 38-year-old Jonathan
Brooks and 39-year-old Elizabeth Brooks, since the age of 8. He had
recently been been grounded for two weeks from using “electronic
devices” — including playing video games — and had been punished with
detention for being late to class.

Nathon Brooks had admitted to police that he had been obsessed with
video games.

“He said he quit playing violent video games because he thought they
were making him more violent,” Moses Lake police Sgt. Mike Williams
noted in the document. “I asked him how much he played video games,
and he told me ‘24/7,’ up until he got his electronics taken away.”

Nathon Brooks indicated that he had decided to shoot his parents after
his mother told his he was “meeting the definition of insanity” by
disobeying over and over again. He said that his parents had been
angry after he recently took one of their credit cards.

On Friday, Police believe the boy pried open a gun safe to retrieve a
..22 caliber pistol. After listening to music for about 90 minutes, he
decided to kill his parents.

“He said he was rethinking it, but said ultimately the voice telling
him to do it was louder than the one telling him not to,” Williams
wrote. “He said he just heard over and over in his head that he would
be able to do whatever he wanted if he killed his parents.”

While his radio was recharging, Nathon Brooks quietly entered his
parents room just before 10 p.m. and aimed the gun at the back of his
father’s head.

“He shot his dad first, [and] then he shot his mom, [and] then shot
again at his dad when [his father] rolled out of bed,” Williams
explained in the report. “Nathon said that when he was firing at his
mom and she tried to get up, so he fired at her twice more and she
stopped moving.”

Jonathan Brooks reportedly was able to call 9-1-1 to report that an
intruder had shot him and his wife. When police arrived, Nathon Brooks
told officers that the shooter had left.

But a video surveillance camera that the father had set up to monitor
his son clearly showed Nathon Brooks walking through the living room
while carrying a handgun, police said.

Moses Lake police had investigated Nathon Brooks in 2010 over
allegations that he molested a younger girl, but the boy had no
previous criminal charges.

Officials at Moses Lake Christian Academy, where Nathon Brooks went to
school, said they were shocked by the shooting.

“It’s been a difficult day for our family …[that] really is what we
are here, we’re a very tight-knit community and so it’s shocking to
all of us,” Moses Lake Christian Academy interim director told KXLK.
“I don’t know how anyone comes to grips with this. It’s a tragedy for
the family and for the community, not just Moses Lake Christian
Academy but for Moses Lake as a community.”

The academy released a statement on Tuesday saying that Jonothan
Brooks had been released from the hospital and was staying with his
wife as medical staff tried to stabilize her before surgery.

A family friend told KXLY that both parents were “doing well,” and
that Elizabeth Brooks was able to communicate through sign languange.

Nathon Brooks was being held in lieu of $500,000 bail.

This week, the video game industry said it would launch a campaign to
help educate parents about the video game rating system created by the
Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) and on how controls in
video games consoles could be used to limit access to violent content.

Following the mass shooting of 20 elementary school children in
Connecticut last year, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay
Rockefeller (D-WV) introduced a bill to have the National Academy of
Sciences study the link between violent video games and violent acts
by children.