The suspected killer, Darel King, was heard threatening Daushawn Guthridge during an online match. This evidence, submitted by an anonymous player, led to King's charges.
The name of the game was not released, though it was described as a basketball game.
A nearly four year old murder in Michigan was solved with an assist from the Playstation basketball game the victim was playing when he was gunned down, federal authorities said this week.
Daushawn Lamarr Guthridge, 41, was fatally shot on July 10, 2019, during a robbery in his Flint home in a case that led police to plead for the public's help.
An affidavit supporting King's arrest, written by Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives Special Agent Dustin Hurt, did not identify the victim.
However, Hurt's narrative precisely matches publicly disclosed circumstances of Guthridge's slaying, down to the date, time on the clock and block — Kent Street near Seymour Avenue — where the fatal shooting took place.
An anonymous caller claimed to have been remotely playing an online Playstation 4 basketball game with the victim at the time of the murder, and that audio of the slaying had been recorded by the game.
“I have been sitting outside your house since earlier, man,” the man in the recording continued. “Where the f*****g money at? You got 30 seconds. Think I’m playing? If I don’t find no money in 20 seconds bro, if I don’t find no f*****g bows (pound packages of marijuana) and no money in 20 second bro, I’m sorry….”
Another voice is heard in the background of the video, counting down from 30. Gunfire ensues – 12 shots in all. The number of shots heard are consistent with the dozen 9mm casings found at the scene of a July 10, 2019, shooting in which Daushawn Guthridge, 41, was killed and a woman was shot while shielding a 9-year-old child.
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