Syracuse, NY – A group of high school students in the state of New York is being threatened with kidnapping positions if they do not become authorities about a ride joke for the Lacrosse team in which the participants are accused of organizing an armed kidnapping of younger players.
The prosecutors claim that the members of the Lacrosse program in Westhill High School in the Syracuse suburbs planned a team trip to McDonald’s that ended with a tied player, with bandados and put on a trunk, said the district prosecutor of the County of Onoondaga, Bill Fitzpatrick.
The alleged victim was led to believe that she would be abandoned in a remote area, but was returned to her house without being physically damaged.
“I cannot properly express to this community the level of stupidity and the lack of judgment involved in this case,” Fitzpatrick told journalists on Tuesday night.
Fitzpatrick said that a person who was leading five younger players in the team pretended to get lost, arrested in a place where other joke participants lay, armed with at least one knife and a weapon that seemed to be a weapon.
It was then that the students launched the false kidnapping. While the student was not physically injured, “emotionally, that will be long term,” said Fitzpatrick.
“This does not illuminate a flame bag on Halloween and hit it in its entrance path, this is a criminal activity,” he said, added that he could have led to a fatal shooting if the police had met the scene and saw “a child with a hood on the head being kidnapped at the tip of weapons.”
The events were captured in video, and Fitzpatrick said that the local sheriff office identified 11 people who believe they participated directly or indirectly. In the trick. He is offering these people, some of whom are 18, until Thursday to surrender and face lower level positions that would not result in jail.
Those who do not deliver would face charges for serious crimes.
“Do not come to cry in two weeks and say: ‘You loaded my little kidnapping baby.’ Yes, that is correct.
Messages were left looking for comments for the Superintendent of the Westhill Steve Dunham school district.
In a statement proportionate to Syracuse.com Earlier this week, he said: “Our highest priority is always physical security, mental health and well -being of our students” and that “any behavior that negatively affects any of these aspects for other students will be addressed quickly and adequately according to our code of conduct.”
