'He got into his van and accelerated, causing the rope to tighten around his neck and decapitated himself. Last year, a coroner in Britain stated that four teenage suicides were partly to blame on versions of the game.Ī spokesman for the Dallas Police Department told Mail Online: 'Witnesses observed the victim, Hugo Rodriguez a Latin male tie a rope around a fire hydrant and then around his neck. Gamers are armed with machine guns, rifles, pistols and grenades and play a fast-paced game of kill or be killed. It is a first-person shooter that was developed in 2010 and is set in the Second World War and the Cold War. In the aftermath, shocked witnesses posted images online purportedly showing the victim still on the road.Ĭall of Duty Black Ops is a version of the computer game franchise that releases a new edition almost every year. Police are now investigating the incident but revealed that no one else was hurt.
The van was eventually taken away while a cordon of patrol cars surrounded Mr Rodriguez's body. The message the man wrote on the side of his van could be related to computer game Call of Duty Black Ops
