Ding-dong-ditch … dead. In Florida, kids are warned the adults may shoot pranksters | Column

A recent front-page story in the Orlando Sentinel looked at teenagers in Florida held at gunpoint and even shot dead after ...
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11-year-old boy fatally shot in Houston after 'ding dong ditch' doorbell-ringing prank, police say

An 11-year-old boy was fatally shot in Houston after a prank in which he rang the doorbell of a home and ran away, police said Sunday. The boy had been ringing doorbells as a prank late Saturday ...
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A man is in custody and an 11-year-old boy is dead after a ‘ding dong ditch’ prank turned tragic. Here’s what we know.

(CNN) — Eleven-year-old Julián Guzman and his cousin had been hanging out at a family party late Saturday when they decided to branch out on their own. But what started as innocent fun would soon take ...
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‘No such thing as a prank anymore’: In Florida, do ‘ding-dong ditches’ endanger kids?

A little after 10 p.m. on a recent October night, a group of kids ran up to the doorbell of a West Boca Raton home and made to flee, one of a series of “ding-dong ditch” pranks they said they were ...