In the early hours of June the 24th of 2022, Philadelphia man James "Simmie" Lambert Jr was
walking across Cecil B. Moore Avenue when he was ambushed by a group of teenagers,
without warning or provocation. Harrowing surveillance footage from the attack showed
Lambert initially trying to walk away from the group, which consisted of three females
and four males in their early to mid-teens. One of them, later identified as Richard Jones, then
grabbed a traffic cone, came up behind Lambert and struck him in the head. The 73-year-old
man collapsed on the sidewalk. Emboldened by Jones’ attack, another teen, Gamara Mosley,
picked up the cone and threw it into Lambert as he was curled up on the pavement. Lambert got up
and staggered down the sidewalk at which point Mosley chased after him with the cone, raised
it above her shoulders and forcefully slammed it against his head. The teens were seen laughing
and egging each other on throughout the clip. Lambert suffered devastating injuries to which
he succumbed in a hospital the following day. The Philadelphia Police Department released the
video along with a $20,000 reward for information leading to the assailants’ capture. Richard Jones
and Gamara Mosely surrendered to the authorities in the aftermath. As of the latest available
information on the case, they were charged as adults with third-degree murder and conspiracy.
Number 6 Payton Collier, William Bell, Ronnie Lang Jr., and Ashley Esselborn
23-year-old Wichita Falls man Zachary Wood was murdered in May of 2022, in what Texas law
enforcement described as a “massive bloodletting event”. The incident occurred at a time when
Wood was at a Brown Street home with 27-year-old Payton Collier and her boyfriend Ronnie Lang Jr.
Also present were 21-year-old Ashley Esselborn and her boyfriend William Bell. A fight erupted on May
the 21st after Collier and Esselborn, who at the time worked as a Hooters waitress, accused Wood
of stealing drugs and money from them while they’d been sleeping. 18-year-old Lang led the group in a
vicious attack on Wood that resulted in him being punched, stomped and struck with a baseball bat
and a handgun. The relentless pummeling resulted in Wood’s death and his body was found by the
police responding to a welfare check at around noon on May the 21st. The group was arrested
a few days later on charges of first-degree felony murder. During her police interviews,
Esselborn denied taking part in the fatal beating but admitted that she’d cheered the others on as
they were assaulting Wood, while demanding to know the whereabouts of her stolen property. She also
confessed to helping dispose of bloodied items in the aftermath. Her stated degree of involvement
was confirmed by Collier. As of December of 2022, Lang was given a 50-year sentence after pleading
guilty to Wood’s murder in September. Bell was bailed out while Collier remained jailed.
Esselborn, whose bail had been reduced from $1 million to $100,000, asked a judge to further
cut it down to $50,000, arguing that she’d be able to pay it from the money she’d made working as an
OnlyFans model. Her request was denied. Number 5 Buffalo Kia Challenge
Four American teenagers died in a car crash, in late October of 2022,
in an incident that the authorities reported was linked to a TikTok trend called the Kia
Challenge. It consisted of viral videos teaching users how to break into Kia or Hyundai vehicles,
remove the ignition cover and then hotwire them using a USB cord and a screwdriver. Based on what
they’d learned from the trend, a group of six teenagers stole a Kia Sportage in Buffalo, New
York, on October the 23rd. During the joyride, the vehicle violently crashed on Route 33. The driver,
Julian Armstead, remained trapped inside the Kia as his five companions were forcefully ejected.
Only one of the teens that had been launched into the street survived, after she was initially
reported as being in critical condition. The deceased were identified as Marcus Webster,
Swazine Swindle, Kevin Payne, and Ahjanae Harper, who’d recently become a mother. On December the
9th of 2022, a judge ruled that Armstead would remain in adult court for charges that included
four counts of manslaughter in the second degree, one count of assault in the first degree and one
count of criminal possession of stolen property. Number 4 Shania McNeill
Australian woman Shania McNeill was driving from a club in Sydney's west and heading to a friend’s
house, about a half an hour past midnight, on April the 28th of 2019. McNeill’s friends, Hazel
Wildman and Faeda Hunter, were passengers in her pink Suzuki and had recorded her on SnapChat while
she was purposefully driving on the wrong side of the road. As music was blaring in the car, the
disturbing video showed them seemingly encouraging 21-year-old McNeill as she was “playing chicken”
with oncoming cars. It would later be determined that McNeill was two times over the alcohol limit
while also having MDMA and cannabis in her system. At around 1:10 am, while driving recklessly
through Berkshire Park, she crashed head-on into a Nissan Micra. The collision obliterated
the front sides of both vehicles and McNeill suffered massive internal injuries. She died
before paramedics arrived at the scene. Inside the Micra were musicians Dennis Sales and Ken Morrow,
who’d been driving home from a gig at Riverstone RSL. Bystanders pulled them from the wreck along
with the Suzuki’s occupants. Morrow was later released with a shattered wrist while Sales,
a father-of-three, was placed in a coma for two days but eventually recovered. Wildman and Hunter
were heavily criticized for sharing a selfie from the hospital that showed them wearing neck braces,
after their friend had just died. In a subsequent interview, the women, both in their early 20s
at the time, denied knowing that McNeill had succumbed to her injuries at the time of uploading
the photo. Wildman told a media outlet "She just looked like she was sleeping, and happy sleeping.
She looked beautiful on the outside". In the same interview, Hunter admitted that they’d encouraged
McNeill before “it started to get scary”. Number 3 Sarah Platt
British teenager Sarah Platt and her friends tried the Skull Breaker Challenge,
a trend popularized on TikTok, in February of 2020. It involved three people jumping
in a line with those on each side kicking the legs out from under the person in the middle,
thus causing them to fall on their back. The momentum typically resulted in the
back of their head whipping back into the surface on which they landed. Platt would
later remember that she initially didn’t want to take part in the stunt, fearing she’d get hurt,
but eventually gave in to peer pressure while at a sporting event with her friends. As they
kicked Platt’s legs out, she landed awkwardly on her neck and soon started losing feeling in her
right leg. She was rushed to the hospital, where doctors found that she’d broken three bones in
her neck and her T5 vertebrae. Platt’s mother shared footage of the moment when the injury
occurred as well as a photo of her daughter lying flat with a brace on her head and neck,
as a warning to other parents. A few years after the injury, in the summer of 2022, Platt herself
urged others not to try viral challenges. Although the 18-year-old had largely overcome the mobility
issues stemming from her injury, she reported that she still suffered complications. One of them was
in the form of postural tachycardia syndrome, which caused her to faint.
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Number 2 Ashley Hughes While at his residence at the University
of Lincoln, in December of 2014, English teenager Ashley Hughes decided to experiment with MDMA. The
freshman was 13 weeks into his studies after leaving his family home near Stockport, in
Cheshire. As reported by his mother, Hughes didn’t drink or smoke and was “innocent minded”. She
reportedly read messages from the 19-year-old’s phone in his own words saying that he was being
peer pressured into trying drugs. Hughes and his friend, 19-year-old Luke Green, pooled their cash
along with another unnamed student. Green then bought eight pills from fellow freshman Reis
Bilal who in turn was supplied by final year student Haydn Watson, aged 21. By all accounts,
Hughes was very inexperienced with drugs. On the evening of December the 16th, he took two pills
at once, unaware that they had a purity of 40%, meaning they were roughly twice as strong as the
drugs typically found on the street. A few hours later he started overheating and displaying signs
of distress. Friends took him outside and tried to lower his temperature with cold showers. In
the early hours of December the 17th, Hughes collapsed in the shower. He was taken to the
County Hospital, but doctors were unable to save him with the cause of death subsequently listed
as overdose. Green, Bilal and Watson were labeled “monsters” by Hughes’ mother in the aftermath for
what she’d perceived as them praying on her son. They were given sentences ranging from 12 months
to three years, after they’d each admitted to being involved in procuring the fatal MDMA.
Number 1 Shaun Mollon In the fall of 2022,
English businessman Shaun Mollon, aged 49, travelled for work to Burton-upon-Trent, in
Staffordshire. After he’d gone out for dinner and drinks with his colleagues, on September the 23rd,
Mollon headed back to his hotel but got lost after taking a wrong turn. At around 2:30 am,
he spotted a group of youths in a car park off High Street and asked them for directions. One
from the group, which reportedly consisted of three young men and three young women, came at
Mollon from behind and floored him with a powerful blow. After the father-of-two had collapsed,
the others joined in the attack and proceeded to repeatedly stomp and kick him in the head until he
became unconscious. They then left him for dead and drove off. Although he’d been badly hurt,
Mollon was able to regain his composure enough to reach his colleagues, who then rushed him to
the hospital. Among other injuries, Mollon’s jaw, eye socket and cheekbone had been shattered. The
York man needed reconstructive surgery in the form of pins and metal plates inserted in his
face to mend the damage. As for his mental state, Mollon’s wife reported that the brutal beating had
left him a “broken man”. He wouldn’t leave the house, had flashbacks, was scared of noises and
flinched whenever someone touched him, including his children. Mollon decided to share his story,
in October of 2022, hoping that it would help the authorities find his attackers.
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