Tag: strangulation
Teen won’t survive after trying viral ‘choking game’: mom
A heartbroken mother in Indiana is preparing for the death of her teenage son after he was gravely injured while replicating a “choking game” that he saw on social media, she said Sunday.
Joann Jackson Bogard, of Evansville, said something went “horribly wrong” when her son, Mason, tried to temporarily asphyxiate himself late Wednesday after seeing the practice of self-strangulation or assisted strangulation online.
“The challenge is based on the idea that you choke yourself to the point of almost passing out and then stop,” Bogard wrote in a Facebook post Sunday. “It’s supposed to create a type of high. Unfortunately, it has taken the lives of many young people too early and it will take our precious Mason.”
Bogard thanked doctors at Deaconess Hospital for doing everything they could to save her son, who was critically injured. The family is now preparing to donate the teen’s organs, she said.
“While we are devastated that we will never experience so many things with Mason again, we are able to find some comfort in the fact that Mason will save the lives of others,” Bogard’s post continued. “He would have wanted it this way. He was an extremely generous young man.”
Bogard also warned other parents to monitor what their children view on social media, despite concerns that they may be a bit overprotective.
“Unfortunately, we will not have the opportunity to experience so many things with our child because of a stupid challenge on social media,” Bogard wrote.
Bogard could not be reached for comment Monday. In a subsequent post late Sunday, Bogard said Mason still had fluid in his lungs.
“Please pray that he continues to improve his lung function to give his recipient the best lungs possible,” the post read. “He has already surpassed expectations and is almost there. He is still showing us how strong he is!”
A message seeking comment from Evansville police was not immediately returned.
Eighty-two children between ages 6 and 19 died after playing the so-called choking game between 1995 and 2007, according to the Evansville Courier & Press, citing a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report with the agency’s most recent statistics.
Seventy-one of the victims were male and the average age was just over 13, according to the 2008 report, which noted that serious neurological injury or death can result if strangulation is prolonged.
The earliest known death due to the stunt took place in 1995, with three or fewer deaths following in each year between 1995 and 2004. A total of 22 deaths were recorded in 2005, followed by 35 fatalities in 2006, according to the CDC report.
And among the 42 deaths in which sufficient details were reported, 92 percent of the victim’s parents said they didn’t know about the choking game until their child died, the report found.
“Hug your children, tell them you love them,” Bogard’s initial post concluded. “Enjoy every moment and let the little issues go.”
via: https://nypost.com/2019/05/06/teen-wont-survive-after-trying-viral-choking-game-mom/
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Man pleads guilty to killing wife, taking kids to dump her body
A Texas man pleaded guilty to killing his wife and then taking his kids on a road trip to dump her body, according to reports.
Jonathan Allee, 31, agreed to a plea deal Tuesday in Harris County Criminal Courthouse that would require he serve 35 years in prison for the 2016 murder, the Houston Chronicle reported.
Prosecutors allege the defendant beat and strangled his wife, 28-year-old Elizabeth Ferrell, before tossing her body in a waterway west of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Her body was discovered with blunt force trauma to the head on April 23, 2016.
The prosecution team pointed to how Allee allegedly changed his story. He initially told investigators he saw his wife four days before her body was found, but then claimed he’d last seen her on April 21, 2016.
The couple’s 5-year-old daughter told police Allee took her and her baby sister on a road trip. Allee allegedly stopped the car at a point during the trip and got something from the trunk, according to the Houston Chronicle.
“God only knows how this will impact [their daughter] in the future when she figures out why he stopped on that bridge,” Ferrell’s cousin, Daphne Hesse, told the newspaper.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/03/05/man-pleads-guilty-to-killing-wife-taking-kids-to-dump-her-body/
Photo Credit: Jonathan Allee and Elizabeth Ferrell Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office
Woman arrested for choking wrong man over alleged butt grab
An upstate woman choked a nightclub bouncer unconscious because she thought he grabbed her butt — only to learn one of her own friends was the real groper, according to a new report.
Plattsburgh resident Kierah Lagrave, 22, was at Five1Eight nightclub, where she works, on Oct. 20 when someone hit her from behind, according to the Press-Republican newspaper.
The 125-pound woman then walked up behind the club’s bouncer and strangled him until he fell to the floor unconscious, police told the paper.
When cops questioned Lagrave about the incident, she acknowledged choking the guard but said it was because he grabbed her.
However, police say security footage revealed the bouncer was innocent.
“The surveillance video clearly shows that Lagrave’s friend slapped her on the buttocks [beforehand],” Plattsburgh City Police Chief Levi Ritter told the paper.
Lagrave was arrested Thursday and his with the felony charge of second-degree strangulation. She was released on her own recognizance, the Press-Republican reports.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/10/31/woman-arrested-for-choking-wrong-man-over-alleged-butt-grab/
Son arrested after allegedly strangling mother in Orange CA, police say
A man was arrested Monday afternoon after he called 911 and said he had strangled his mother during a domestic dispute, authorities said.
The call was made at 2:45 p.m., prompting officers to respond to the 5800 block of Ridgemont Court, where they found the suspect’s mother dead, according to a news release from the Orange Police Department.
The son was taken into custody at the scene, the statement said. Police homicide detectives assumed the investigation.
The names and ages of the victim and suspect were not immediately released.
via: http://abc7.com/son-arrested-after-allegedly-strangling-mother-in-orange/2308131/