Halo, Halo Won’t Tell Me Your Name? Poem by Joe Rosochacki

His name is Daniel Petric not Robbie Petry.
He got so mad with his parents that he blew them away,
Because they took his video game “Halo 3” which he wanted to play.
He grew up in a “fine” Christian home; his father is a minister,
New Life Assembly of God in Wellington, Ohio,
Could he and his wife raise a boy so sinister?

From Birth?

Prosecutors said Petric planned to kill his parents
because he was angry that his father would not allow him to play the video game,
in which players shoot alien monsters that have taken over the Earth.

The mom died, Susan Petric,43, and the dad is alive,
The mom is in the ground, dad survived,
The father, Mark Petric said in, order to be true,
Not bearing false witness against thy neighbor let alone his son,
Mark Petric testified that his son came into the room and asked: 'Would you guys close your eyes? I have a surprise for you.'

Defense attorneys have pleaded to the judge that Daniel was mentally insane.
The judge refused to enter the plea.
At the end of the murderous rampage,
Defense Attorney James Kersey said that when the teenager fled the grisly scene,
he only took one item with him: the 'Halo 3' game.

For the Petric family Armageddon is now,
Their son is the anti-Christ, the Damien from the Omen,
The family must have been wondering, Why, and How.

(1-13-09)