A high school senior was left paralyzed from the waist down when a furious father shot him in a Walmart parking lot after the teen fired a toy gun at the man’s daughter as part of a controversial trend.
Anakin Zehring, 18, was in a car with two other males outside of a Walmart in Goddard, Kansas on May 11 when they spotted two teens walking towards the building and conducted a drive-by shooting with gel blasters, according to the Wichita Eagle.
A passenger inside the car shouted “I am your senior assassin” as the two teens — a girl and her boyfriend — were shot at multiple times with the water-filled polymer beads.
“Senior Assassin” is an elaborate game of tag, where participating high school seniors are given a “target” and are usually asked to record “tagging” their victims and posting it to social media off school grounds…..
…….Once inside, the girl called her father, Ruben Marcus Contreras, to tell him they were shot with the gel blasters and didn’t know who the teens were……….
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Contreras’ daughter, identified as “SC,” said she saw her father walking towards the car and put her head down “due to being scared of what might happen to her dad.”
The scared daughter heard a “loud pop” before watching the blue spark drive away and crash into shipping containers.
“(Contreras) runs back up to the driver’s side of the Spark and appears to pull out a firearm from the right side of his waistband,” a Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office detective wrote in the affidavit, obtained by the Wichita Eagle.
“(Contreras) has the firearm in his right hand and sticks his right hand into the open window of the driver’s side back seat area. It is at this point (Contreras) fires one round into the vehicle.”
Contreras was armed with a 9mm Smith and Wesson handgun.
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