What was supposed to be a fun game for high school seniors ended up with one Portage, Indiana, student charged with a felony and spending the weekend in jail.
The game is called “Senior Assassin,” and it involves teenagers going around their neighborhood blasting their classmates with water guns until one wins.
What’s the issue? Some of the water pistols carried by the students can be mistaken for real ones, which is exactly what happened this weekend. As a result, Adrian Williams, 18, worries his college scholarship may be jeopardized.
In a short second, a game designed to be fun and lighthearted can suddenly escalate into catastrophic consequences for kids throughout the country.
On Friday afternoon, Portage police received a complaint about a man with a gun inside a Planet Fitness parking lot. When I say I’ve never felt closer to death than Friday, I truly mean it. “I mean, there were four or five guns pointed at me,” Williams explained.
He stated that he was waiting at the entrance to splash one of his classmates inside the gym with a water cannon. “He went inside his car for a bit and said the police used excessive force to arrest him. “I begin saying, ‘It’s a water pistol; I’m a senior in high school, senior assassin.’ They force me to the floor, handcuff me, and I’m still trying to explain what’s going on,” he added.
Williams purchased his water gun from the TikTok shop. The guns are looking more realistic and tactical. “It’s harder to tell them apart,” Lake Zurich Police Sergeant Andrew Sieber told CBS Chicago last year.
He stated that police will handle each occurrence as if it were a real firearm until it is confirmed to be a squirt gun. The police’s reaction when they arrived was natural. But despite the fact that they saw what he had, which was a water gun, they managed to toss him in the back of the police car and hold him for the weekend,” claimed Williams’ mother, Tiffany May.
Williams was charged with felony intimidation and spent three nights in jail.
When asked if he had any regrets about what had happened, he replied, “The only thing I can regret is that I came to Planet Fitness at all that day.”
Portage police stated they will issue a news release regarding the event. Last spring, police stated that they do not support or condone the game.
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