Crime & Safety

Six Attacks From The 'Knockout Game' Reported In New Haven Last Week

The trend where young groups of males try to knock out random people with one punch has hit the Connecticut city.

At least six people in New Haven were victims of the Knockout Game last week, an increasingly-popular trend among young males where one tries to knock out a random person with one punch.

On Monday and Tuesday last week, the New Haven Register reports that six people were assaulted by young males playing the Knockout Game. The Knockout Game, which has sprouted up throughout many American east coast cities, is where a person - generally a teenage male - tries to knock out a random person with one punch.

Of the six people attacked in New Haven, one was an elderly woman, according to the Register. New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman said the city would work to "crush this immediately," according to the newspaper.

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One 46-year-old Jersey City man was killed this September from the Knockout Game when he was punched unexpectedly and his head hit an iron fence, according to the Associated Press.


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