An incident reported on the evening of Sept. 5 by the Healdsburg Police Department in their weekly media bulletin may have been related to a game of “Fugitive,” played by high school students in the neighborhoods between the Community Center and Badger Park.
Somewhere along Matheson Street, at about 10:30pm, a “charcoal/gray Volkswagen Passat or Honda occupied by four to five individuals” pulled into the driveway and “[its occupants] threw eggs at three juvenile females,” according to report 5209050052. Two of the girls were hiding beneath a white GMC pickup truck and one was in the truck bed. The eggs hit the tailgate of the pickup after which the car left. The owner of the pickup confronted the three girls, who left the area without providing a description of the egg-throwers.
This incident appears to have been connected to the “Fugitive” game that HHS Principal Tait Danhausen had warned students about in a campus-wide message that same day. “In short, students chase each other around town and ‘shoot’ each other with a variety of devices including Airsoft guns and Orbeez pellets,” he wrote. “These guns can look very real and have led to arrests in the past.”…