A knockout game is a deadly trend today among the nation’s teens resulting in deaths and numerous serious injuries. According to “Fox and Friends” live on Wednesday morning Nov. 20, 15 states are reporting knockout incidents with deaths resulting from these knockout punches reported in Syracuse, N.Y., St. Louis, Mo. and Hoboken, N.J., reports the IB Times.This deadly game leaves no one of any age off limits. The object of this game is to knockout a pedestrian, who is a stranger, with one punch. People just walking down the street are getting sucker punched with the punches seemingly coming out of nowhere.There is no warning, the people who have been victims of this deadly game were just randomly picked. The object is to land a “one hitter quitter,” which boils down to one punch knocking the unsuspecting victim unconscious.Some of the incidents have been videotaped and have shown up online. The clips show a stranger getting punched in the face by a teen and the teen walks away while the victim lies motionless on the ground. Check out the video to the left to see how quickly this knockout incident happens.In May a 15-year-old and a 13-year-old were arrested for killing 51-year-old Michael Daniels. These Syracuse, N.Y. teens not only planted a sucker punch on the victim, but stomped him to death. A 72-year-old St. Louis man was knocked out and died with just one punch in 2011 and the knockout game player is serving a life sentence plus 25 years in prison.In Hoboken, N.J. a 46-year-old man was a victim of this knockout game and he was found with a broken neck, with his head lodged between two rails of an iron fence post. Recent incidents are reported in Mass, New Jersey and Illinois.While the majority of the victims have been men, women are also reported victims of this crime. A 12-year-old child was also a recent victim of this crime called the knockout game.It is the randomness that scares people because no one is safe. The victims are random, so there is absolutely no warning.
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