A teenager has been killed in what might be the first death resulting from Pokemon Go, reported Independent.
Eighteen years old Jerson Lopez de Leon was ambushed and died after being shot while he was playing the game with cousin Daniel Moises Picen, 17.
It still isn’t clear why the two were attacked, police said. But they have speculated that it may have been that the attackers found the teenagers using the app itself – which has location features that make it possible to encourage people to go to specific areas, or to locate players.
The two were searching for Pokemon on a street in Chiquimula, 120 miles from Guatemala City.
Police found almost 20 bullet casings at the scene of a murder and are now looking for the occupants of a van that was seeing driving from the scene.
Jerson’s mother, Rosalinda, said that the teenager had left the house to go out and play the augmented reality game.
The death appears to be the first one related to the Pokemon Go game, though there is no suggestion that it actually had any responsibility for what happened.
But it is just the latest in a run of problems that have hit people looking for Pokemon. That has included people falling off cliffs and others being lured to be robbed at gunpoint as they search for Pokemon.
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