DENVER (KDVR) — High school students in Weld County are shooting each other with gel pellets during a game called “Assassins,” according to the district’s school resource officers.
Sgt. Paul Grossman, of the Fort Lupton Police Department’s School Resource Office Unit, wrote in a letter to the Weld RE-8 School District community that the “Assassins” game typically uses water guns, and anyone wearing “floaties” was designated as playing the game. But this year, Grossman says students are using “Orbeez guns,” which shoot a gel pellet at a “high velocity,” according to the officer.
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“While these gel projectiles may seem harmless, they can cause serious injury,” Grossman warned in a letter to the district community on Wednesday. “Even more troubling is that I personally witnessed high school students today hanging out of moving car windows and shooting other students on public roadways. This behavior is not only dangerous but also reckless, and it will not be tolerated.”
While the pellets are soft and squishy, medical experts say they still pose dangers. Dr. Dan Guzman, M.D. , a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Texas, said the gel projectiles could especially be dangerous to people’s eyes…