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.