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Phoebe Connolly, a possible victim of game where teenagers appear to sucker-punch strangers, is encouraging people to think critically about how such attacks can be stopped.


Connolly was biking in the Columbia Heights area of Washington when she was struck. She had passed through a group of teenagers, she said, when one of them "reached out and punched me in the face."


"The whole group of kids laughed," Connolly told CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" on Tuesday night.


And she's not the only one.


Another woman was attacked in the same area one day earlier. She, too, sustained minor injuries, according to Washington police.


Authorities have reported similar incidents in New Jersey, New York, Illinois and Missouri.


One of the latest attacks happened in New York. A woman in her 70s was punched in the face by a man with whom she had no known previous contact or connection.





http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/26/us/knockout-game/
 
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A San Diego woman is coming forward to say she is the latest victim of what is known as the "knockout" game. The trend of disturbing attacks involves randomly sucker punching strangers on the street.


Nami Kim is a Japanese immigrant who has lived in San Diego for five years.


She calls what happened to her near the Gaslamp Quarter one of the strangest things she has ever been through. Kim says she suffered a swollen forehead and a chipped crown tooth as a result.


http://www.10news.com/news/san-diego-woman-may-be-victim-of-knockout-game-11262013
 
Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy accused of an attack at Hamden High School that appears to mimic the violent so-called “knockout game.”


On Nov. 22, a teacher frantically approached Officer Scott Jason, the school resource officer, to report an assault.


Police said a 15-year-old student ran toward a senior who was walking in the hallway and punched him.


The victim didn’t know the boy who assaulted him and said they he had never spoken.


When police spoke with the suspect, he told officers “it’s a game he and his friends play,” police said.




http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Teen-Accused-of-Knockout-Game-Attack-at-Hamden-High-School--233644131.html
 
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A 41-year-old black woman was struck by a stranger in an unprovoked attack while walking down an East New York street around 12:40 p.m. Tuesday, cops said.

"No, I do not know that guy,” the woman said as she left the NYPD’s 75th precinct station house. “He just attacked me."



http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/woman-struck-knockout-game-attack-article-1.1530042#ixzz2ltLFrwzp
 
Police are investigating if a 72-year-old woman is the latest victim of the so-called “knockout game,” a violent trend in which youths sucker-punch unsuspecting strangers for kicks.


Mira Harpazi was walking two blocks from her home at the Starret City housing complex in Brooklyn when she was punched in the face by a man in his 20s, CBS 2′s John Slattery reported Tuesday.


Like other alleged ”knockout” victims, she was not robbed, but left on the street injured.





http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/11/26/teen-released-to-mothers-custody-after-being-charged-in-alleged-knockout-attack/
 
Two Fort Myers residents were attacked on Monday by a girl who was being video taped by her friends.


In one case the teen kicked an elderly man as he weeded his front yard.


The victim says the girl stood there laughing while her friends used their cell phones to tape the incident.


In another case, minutes later and less than a mile away, a woman was attacked in her front yard. The victim in that case also said the attacker was being taped by friends standing nearby.


The Sheriffs' office has made an arrest in the case.




http://www.winknews.com/Local-Florida/2013-11-27/Lee-County-Sheriff-Knockout-game-attacks-happening-in-SWFL#.UpaBFT-Yzfc
 
A man offering a friendly greeting to a group of young adults may have been the first victim of the brutal “Knockout Game” in Washington state.


The victim was walking out of a store Saturday evening in the 9000 block of E. Sprague Street in Spokane when he passed a group of three 17-21 year olds, Spokane Valley Sheriffs reported.


The man said “what’s up fellas,” to the group before turning his head. One of the group’s members, for no apparent reason, punched the man in the face as he turned.


The man fell to the ground and was kicked and prodded by the group before a Good Samaritan came out of a nearby store to break up the incident. Police were called to the scene but were not able to locate any suspects, who had fled.











http://q13fox.com/2013/11/25/brutal-knockout-game-reported-in-spokane/#axzz2ltNJQyvO
 
Photography intern Israel Blizovsky had just finished taking pictures at a Crown Heights engagement party when a hulking teen he was passing on the sidewalk cold-cocked him without warning.


“He was very strong. I was in shock,” said the 19-year-old from Beersheva, Israel.


“I saw a large group of black teenagers coming. I moved to the side to let them pass. Then, all of a sudden, when I was passing right next to them, I felt a punch in the face. They just kept walking. They were all laughing,” he told The Post through a Hebrew translator. “They said something right after he punched me, but I don’t understand English. It looked like they were making fun of me.”






http://nypost.com/2013/11/23/i-was-in-shock-they-were-all-laughing-knockout-game-victim-speaks-out/
 
Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard said an English teacher was strolling through an alley to his parked car. The teacher, James Addlespurger, 50, was approached by a group of teens.


One of the teens punched Addlespurger in the face. The teacher fell and struck his head on the concrete ground. The assault, like so many others, was caught on video, and a 15-year-old was later arrested.


http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/22/justice/knockout-game-teen-assaults/
 
On Monday afternoon around 4:15p.m. 18-year-old Anthony Brooks was walking home from classes at the downtown Damon Campus. He was in front of Baden Street Recreation Center when he was hit by two young men.


After that, Brooks says he blacked out for awhile and doesn't really know what happened or how many times he was hit. But he says it doesn't appear to have been a robbery. He had a laptop, cell phone, a wallet with a few bucks in it and a backpack, none of which were taken.


Brooks says he didn't recognize the men.


http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S3230251.shtml
 
A nicotine fiend knocked out a total stranger on a Brooklyn street because he was angry that nobody would give him a cigarette — and then he did a victory dance because he “felt exhilarated,” police sources told The Post.


Michael Grant, 27, was trying to score the smoke on New Lots Avenue and Ashford Street at around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, but lost his cool when he was turned down numerous times, he told cops.


The brute celebrated his sucker punch with a dance next to the injured woman’s body. He later told police, “I just felt exhilarated.”



http://nypost.com/2013/11/27/cigarette-beggar-feels-exhilarated-after-punching-stranger/
 
Teens playing knockout killed Michael Daniels, 51.


Daniels was beaten and stomped to death outside Los Amigos Market.


A 16-year-old was found guilty of manslaughter, and his 13-year-old co-defendant pleaded guilty to assault, admitting he started the fatal beating by trying to knock out Daniels with a single punch


Both were sentenced to 18 months behind bars.





http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/11/deadly_knockout_game_gains_national_prominence.html
 
James Gifford, 70, was killed in September.


Gifford died after being attacked in September. Described as a gentle man, he was coming out of the Elmwood 7-11 when he was attacked.


Romeo Williams, 18, of Solvay, has been charged with first-degree manslaughter and is awaiting trial.



http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/11/deadly_knockout_game_gains_national_prominence.html
 
In Washington, D.C., police were investigating two assaults in the past week, both of which resulted in minor injuries but not unconsciousness.


One victim, Phoebe Connolly, of Brattleboro, Vt., said she was randomly punched in the face by a teenager while riding her bike during a work-related visit to Washington last Friday.


Connolly, who is 32 and works with teenagers in her job, said the blow knocked her head to the side and bloodied her nose.


"I don't know what the goal was," she said. "There wasn't any attempt to take anything from me."



http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/11/deadly_knockout_game_gains_national_prominence.html
 
In Lower Merion, a leafy suburb near Philadelphia, two attacks may be related to the game.


"We do worry that it's something like that ... because we've had two similar assaults, neither one of which resulted in a robbery," said Lt. Frank Higgins of the Lower Merion Township Police Department.


In one, two 19-year-olds were charged with knocking down a 63-year-old man out walking his dog the evening of Oct. 29. They were arrested nearby a short time later, and have been charged with assault.


http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/11/deadly_knockout_game_gains_national_prominence.html
 
In Jersey City, N.J., two 13-year-olds and a 14-year-old were charged as juveniles in the murder of 46-year-old Ralph Eric Santiago.


He was found with his neck broken and his head wedged between iron fence posts.


Hudson County Prosecutors Office spokesman Gene Rubino said prosecutors believe the teens were playing the game.




http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/11/deadly_knockout_game_gains_national_prominence.html
 
Elex Murphy, now 20, was sentenced to life in prison plus 25 years in St. Louis for killing a Vietnamese immigrant as part the game.



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