Call Of Duty eSports Player Murdered In Disturbing Tragedy

Call of Duty Mobile eSports player Ingrid Oliveira Bueno da Silva, also known as "Sol", was murdered by another player in Brazil. The other player was arrested after recording the murder and sending it to his friends via WhatsApp.

Call of Duty eSports is a growing international sport, but it's never been too much more competitive than any other sport. There have been a handful of controversies, but it's always kept to in-game rulings, cheating, and other things that are relatively harmless in the grand scheme of things. Unfortunately, real life violence has now become a talking point around the popular franchise following a player murdering another young female player.

Ingrid Oliveira Bueno da Silva was just 19-years old and had met the other Call of Duty Mobile player (via VPeSports and R7), Guilherme Alves Costa, AKA "Flashlight”, via the internet. Police determined the murder to be premeditated after finding books outlining what Costa wanted to do to the victim. The player confessed to the killing, noting that he wanted to do it and that his “sanity is completely apt”. “This Monday afternoon, [Guilherme] sent a video on the organization’s group on WhatsApp in which he supposedly had just killed a woman, filmed and shared the video. He also sent a PDF where he leaves messages of hatred against Christians and makes a nod to terrorism. After the clan leadership became aware of what happened, we organized ourselves and took necessary measures: We informed the appropriate authorities and asked all our members not to share the video of the alleged crime," reads a post from the Gamers Elite organization.