A Michigan high school student was wounded when another student pretended to behead him during a disturbing “ISIS Game,” according to a report.
The unidentified Lakeshore High School freshman, who is on the football team, suffered nerve damage last week when a teammate sliced his hand in the locker room as they played the ISIS-inspired game, ABC57 News reported.
According to a Lincoln Township Police report cited by the news outlet, the game is played by mocking a beheading.
During the game, “an individual comes up behind [someone], puts that individual in a headlock and yells at him stating ‘do you have family, do you have loved ones?’ And then makes a motion across their neck in a cutting motion pretending to cut the individual’s head off,” according to the police report.
ISIS has widely engaged in gruesome public beheadings.
The victim was cut after he started to move when his pal placed him in a headlock with one arm as he held the X-Acto knife, the news report said.
The injured student needed nearly six hours of surgery.
Police concluded that there was “no intent” to cause injury and that the incident was the result of a “reckless action,” ABC57 News reported.
The mock executioner told police that he found the knife about a week earlier in the school parking lot and kept it in his locker.
The principal and the superintendent of the district refused to comment to ABC57 News, saying the incident was still under investigation.
A lawyer for the victim’s family told the news outlet that the family is considering legal action against the district because the knife was on school property.