Zamboanga shooter may have been influenced by Roblox: Philippine Cabinet member


FILE PHOTO: A boy poses for a photo while holding a game pad in front of a screen displaying the logo of the U.S. children's gaming platform Roblox, in this illustration taken December 8, 2025. - Reuters

MANILA: Interior and Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla claimed that the perpetrator of the fatal Ateneo de Zamboanga University (ADZU) Junior High School shooting may have been influenced by the game Roblox.

“We still have to do [a] forensic examination on the gadgets of the shooter. We still don’t know with certainty,” Remulla said in a press briefing in Camp Crame on Wednesday (Aug 19).

“But, it is with great degree of confidence that he was influenced by the game of Roblox again because of the manner in which he did it. Roblox in itself is not a dangerous game. It is the chat group that is inside it. That’s where radicalisation comes in,” he added. - Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN

 

 

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