Yet another TikTok challenge has resulted in some deadly consequences… An off-duty corrections officer, Dion Middleton, has been charged with murder, as well as manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, after fatally shooting 18-year-old Raymond Chaluisant, who was using a toy water gun to complete the viral “Orbeez Challenge.” In case you didn’t know, it is basically a challenge where people use a toy that fires gel or water-filled pellets out of moving cars.
According to authorities the tragic incident went down at around 1 a.m. on Thursday in New York when a group of teens was firing the water gel pellets from inside a vehicle.
Middleton was struck by one of the pellets suddenly. However, he thought he was hit by an actual gun. The officer then fired several rounds at the car with a real weapon, striking the car’s back window at one point and shooting Chaluisant in the face. Related: More Parents Sue TikTok Following Their Daughters’ Deaths From ‘Blackout Challenge’ According to The Sun, the New York Police Department said cops arrived at 1:35 a.m.
at the Grand Concourse and East Tremont Avenue in Mount Hope and discovered Chaluisant “unconscious with a gunshot wound to his face” in the passenger seat of a silver Acura.
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