HUNTINGTON, Long Island - A 45-year-old Long Island man was arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot an 11-year-old boy after losing to him in the video game "Fortnite."
Police say the boy received harmful messages from Michael Aliperti via text and Xbox voice messages on Monday night.
Aliperti reportedly told the boy he was going to shoot him at his home and his school.
"For an adult to threaten an 11-year-old kind of gives new definition to sore loser," said Suffolk County Police Chief Stuart Cameron.
Security was stepped up at the boy's school, RJO Middle School in Kings Park, on Tuesday as a precaution.
Aliperti was arrested at his home around 1:40 a.m. He is charged with second-degree aggravated harassment and acting in a manner to injure a child.
Eyewitness News spoke with a woman at Aliperti's house who said she was his sister. She said Aliperti is a father of three who owns a landscaping business, and she tearfully asked for privacy for the family.
Aliperti's attorney, Andrew Karpf, said he has yet to see the messages Aliperti allegedly sent to the boy. Karpf said Aliperti is under a lot of stress as he's going through a contentious divorce.
"I'm guessing that this guy got really angry and wasn't thinking and said these horrible things to this kid," said tech expert Lance Ulanoff, who says it's a wakeup call for parents or anyone who plays online games.
"You wouldn't let your child go walking in an unknown neighborhood by themselves, but parents let their kids play video games by themselves all the time," said Ulanoff. "Meanwhile, they're interacting with people they have never met."
As for gamers, he says never give your name or phone number to strangers. Never reveal where you live, not even your town. And parents should monitor their kids' gaming.
"This is a playground, you don't share anything, just have fun gaming," said Ulanoff.
It is not clear whether Aliperti actually knew the child's identity or where he went to school.
Does no one care that it's internet trash talk, Most of us have been told to kill ourselves at least one
Jace Wilson
Ill fucking kill you
Nicholas Barnes
No i'll kill you mother fucker old style! You just watch you goddamn prick!
Adrian Brown
And now go back to feeding your offspring to the social media Moloch, that lurks on their friends lists, that harvests their information, that indoctrinates them with politics/marketing, that corrupts them into a hierarchy of cultists who rule them with fear and drive them with peer pressure into suicide and murder.
Brody Miller
shut the fuck up goy or we'll kill your family and credit score
This guy is the typical immature freak that browses this website.
Benjamin James
Like yourself?
Jayden Murphy
Fortnite: Not Even Once
Wyatt Gonzalez
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Connor Morales
I'm gonna find everyone in this thread and fucking kill you and your family and your pets then burn your fucking house down.
Caleb Torres
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Camden Lopez
A fate worse than death
Ethan Lewis
Never had a credit card.
Jack Howard
You fucking cunt, I'm going to rape your eyesockets
Ian Hall
Im gonna 360 noscope everyone in this thread.
Joseph Cruz
No credit is still bad nugget
Luis Bell
I wouldn't know. I grew up learning to only buy what I could afford. Buying on credit is a dishonest practice that would leave me unsatisfied and ashamed. There is no honor in holding something that you don't own.
Joseph White
Given the fact you have to work to get it, it's not free, means you own it. Anyways the concept of credit is fine, usury is the problem. If you borrow you should owe exactly what you borrowed
Only possible because you gave a third party access to your money, while also ignoring that the initial snake oil salesman didn't hold up his promise to keep your money safe. Which brings me to my question…why do you let other people get rich of your money?
Grayson Howard
kill yourself before I kill you
I'm going to shoot you with a knife at your school, then stab you with a gun at your home then I'm going to rape your prettiest female relation and then make her pregnant then I'm going to start working hard for once, and change my ways, I'm going to sort myself out and propose to her. when she accepts, I'm going to marry her in a church and have a nice simple wedding, then I'm going to become Amish with her and build her a nice house. then we're going to have seven children together, and live long and quiet lives, going for walks in the mountains together. we'll have 27 grandchildren and I'll tell them of how their grandmother and I first met.
Jack Moore
only voice of sense in the thread/on the planet I'm going to fucking reply to you if you reply to me, fucking poster!
Juan Thomas
Your are dead kiddo.
Lincoln Flores
11 yr old squeakers gotta go
Camden Anderson
Only a manchild would play fortnite anyway, old immature farts should be the ones to leave.
Zachary Wood
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
Angel Morgan
This changed my life user. What astounding information. This surely will impact human history for decades to come.
A manchild is free to do whatever he wants because he was careful enough to not give up his freedoms unlike you, boomer—if you do what you want your wife will bitch slap you.
William Bell
Boomer's ass got zoomed
Thomas Allen
You're goin to jail bro!!!!
Xavier Jones
He might actually be user: >>>/b/8352264
I think Jim just got a court order to give away IPs just recently.
Landon Garcia
they deserve the gas
Zachary Butler
This person should just kill himself. His life is already over if he's playing fortnite at 45 years old. Anyone who plays fortnite should end it right now and do the entire world a favor. Trust me, it'd be a better place without fortnite addicts.
Dominic Perez
Gematria is the Masonic code you have to do something about it they are already almost too Strong we have to stop the False "Jew" youtube.com/watch?v=dv89kJcpg1U
Cameron Hall
45…boomer
Seriously, do you not know how time works? His parents were boomers.
Learn to math, motherfucker.
Levi Peterson
checked
Henry Fisher
boomer at this point basically just means anyone over 18
Why do you retards keep calling people over fifty boomers? Boomers are in their sixties to eighties you fucking Pokemon loving creeps.
Levi Walker
the child begins with dungeons and dragons…. this deviant behavior escelates to video games… then comes the science fiction, and the fantasy weirdo roleplay, followed by Magic The Gathering and Comic-Con…
by this time, the child is now trapped in the body of an adult male, yet his social skills and sexual prowess remain on the stunted level of a child….
anime is the final nail in his coffin, and the only place he can go from here is on his knees, with another man's testicles on his chin…..
in 25 years, the 11 year old will still be living with his mother, (or living on his own with his mother paying all of his bills) a virgin, with no real life friends, still playing video games like a fucking sissy
Jace Cruz
the unironic aspect?……
I wouldn't have ANY idea wtf fortnite is about…. none…
I've never played a god damn videogame in my motherfucking life, although I've had thousands of opportunities….
I'd sooner eat dogshit than to play a fucking video game….. not joking…
and not surprisingly, in my life I've fucked hundreds and hundreds of women and teenaged girls….. literally several hundred….
fortnite is just like any other videogame
it's an electronic expressway to homosexuality and effemininity
Parker Gonzalez
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Jeremiah Price
Gen X BTFO
Wyatt Ramirez
too much monster
Henry Perry
How enlightening. I had always thought the reason kids generally aren't allowed to walk alone in unfamiliar neighborhoods is because they might get kidnapped, raped, and/or murdered, but apparently it's because someone might say something unpleasant to them. I was so off the mark.
Brandon Rogers
Hey so are you cunts just bots or do you actually visit here and post facebook-level comments for fun?
Jacob Wilson
Ha ha my parents and grandparents are all dead and I don't care about the rest Ha ha I literally don't have one
Holy fuck that kid is a pussy. Every day the United States murders people, but if anyone else uses any form of aggression they are magically a psychopath. Let me state this again, if you murder people for oil you are sane, and if you trash talk you are an evil person. 50 million liberals directly benefit from psycho us government murder, but if you say nigger or kike you are evil
Jason Carter
couldn't give any LESS of a flying fuck what labels or insults you try to toss my way, because they are all coming from a fucking effeminate sissified image board anime video game fag
Nolan Flores
I can surely say that I'd rather be A N Y T H I N G o t h e r t h a n y o u
