Online Gaming Addiction: Youth Murders Parents, His Fate Revealed
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Online Gaming Addiction: Teen Murders Parents, Then Commits Suicide in Riyadh
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News18•28-02-2026, 08:03
Online Gaming Addiction: Teen Murders Parents, Then Commits Suicide in Riyadh
•A young man, Yezra Prabhakar, addicted to online games, brutally murdered his parents in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, after they admonished him.
•The parents, Gali Ravi and Gali Sridevi from Andhra Pradesh, had settled in Saudi Arabia; Ravi worked at a bank, and Sridevi was a teacher.
•Prabhakar, a Plus-2 student, neglected studies for gaming, even pressuring parents to buy Rs. 5 lakh gaming equipment.
•After the murders, he bizarrely ordered food, ate amidst the bodies, and then committed suicide by jumping from the building.
•The incident shocked the Telugu expatriate community and serves as a stark warning about the dangers of gaming addiction and unchecked digital exposure.