, a Central Dauphin High School student who collapsed and died Friday after a chase with other boys, said the reason for the incident isn’t known butLocal police departments are warning teenagers to stop playing “Assassins,” a game in which high school seniors often sneak up on their peers outside of school and shoot each other with water guns.
A string of high-end car thefts in the area had left residents with a “heightened awareness” of crime, which creates a “potential for dangerous situations to occur” if students sneak around with water guns while playing the game, the police department said. There are multiple variations of the game, including some in which students are eliminated one by one over several days or weeks when they are soaked with water pistols or hit with Nerf guns. The game ends when there is a lone winner or team that has not been eliminated.