As a child, Noah Urban often wrote of a career in law enforcement or criminal justice, inspired by the TV show “Psych,” with dreams of becoming a lawyer, to “make life a lot more fair.” At 10, the Longwood Police Department, outside of Orlando, named him a “Citizen Hero” for taking swift action to prevent a traffic crash when his father had a medical episode and lost consciousness behind the wheel.

Within a matter of years, the boy who family members said loved participating in community service projects and helping at church, the boy who convinced his mother to go through a fast-food drive-thru to get a meal for a homeless man he saw while riding in the car, became immersed in a world of online gaming, spending eight hours or more each day, playing and chatting with others.

That gaming

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