Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - two police officers and one dispatcher shot dead

On June 7, 2003, Devin Moore (born Devin Darnell Thompson) was taken into custody by police officers Arnold Strickland and James Crump in Fayette, Alabama under suspicion of stealing a car. After entering the police station, 16 year-old Moore grabbed one of the officers' .45 caliber pistols and killed both of them along with dispatcher Leslie Mealer.

Moore then fled in a patrol car, before being apprehended hours later in Mississippi. Soon after, a lawsuit was filed by Jack Thompson on behalf of the families of the slain police officers against Rockstar Games, Take-Two Interactive, Sony Computer Entertainment, GameStop and Wal-Mart.

Allegedly, Moore told police after his apprehension: ''“Life is a video game. Everybody's got to die sometime.”''

On October 9, 2005, Devin Moore was sentenced to death by lethal injection.

Film adaptation
A film about the story of the controversies caused by Grand Theft Auto, The Gamechangers, was released in September 2015.