Number 8 Tom Miller
In December of 2020, a student who’d recently signed his first professional rugby contract
suffered a fatal accident while attending a lockdown breaching house party in the Radford area
of Nottingham, England. With pandemic restrictions limiting gatherings, panic overtook revelers when
they were visited by Community Protection Officers following up on a noise complaint. According to a
Nottinghamshire Police officer, the CPOs had just given them a warning and then left. Yet, as word
spread among partygoers that the authorities were at the scene a ripple effect ensued with
them fleeing into bedrooms, the garden and other places where they could avoid potential detection.
24-year-old rugby player Tom Miller went upstairs where he found a window that gave him access
to a ledge and then a part of the roof. After reaching what he’d believed to be a safe haven,
he filmed himself at the spot and invited one of his friends up to the roof with him.
After they’d spent some time atop the building, the friend went to relieve himself but lost his
footing. He and Miller somehow became entangled and suffered a fall from height. The friend
sustained multiple injuries but survived while Miller was left with a catastrophic brain injury
from which he was unable to recover. Aside from closing in on his debut as a professional athlete,
Miller was also an ambassador for the testicular cancer charity Oddballs. In the aftermath of
his passing over $60,000 were raised for the charity following an online appeal in his name.
Number 7 Aaron Lowe
In September of 2021, a University of Utah football player was shot dead at a house
party in Salt Lake City. Sophomore cornerback Aaron Lowe, aged 21, was attending the party
a few hours after his team, the Utes, had beaten Washington State. According to preliminary police
reports there was a dispute involving Lowe and a group of party crashers who were causing problems.
Lowe was subsequently gunned down along with an unnamed 20-year-old woman. On October the 3rd,
Police Chief Mike Brown tweeted out that Lowe’s killer had been arrested. He was identified as Buk
Mawut Buk, aged 22, a man whose lengthy criminal record included aggravated robbery, theft, weapons
offenses and giving false information to police. After retrieving a firearm from a shoulder bag,
Buk shot Lowe and the female victim several times. The pair collapsed to the ground at which point
Buk approached them and fired five to six more rounds, which was later deemed as his attempt to
“finish them off”. Lowe passed away from his injuries while the woman survived after undergoing
extensive surgery. Buk’s sentence remained to be determined but, based on the charges,
he was likely to face life in prison. Number 6 Nicholas Rogers
On August the 6th of 2017, Nicholas Rogers stabbed a female postal worker to death at a house party
in Peebles, Scotland, after suffering from what was described as an “abnormality of the
mind”. 26-year-old Rogers had been struggling with mental health issues, for which he’d spent time in
specialized institutions, as well as with alcohol and gambling addiction. His then-girlfriend,
18-year-old Katrina Kelly, had been concerned about him in the days leading up to the fatal
stabbing. They’d watched the movie Split together, about a man with multiple personalities the most
menacing of which was a serial killer named “The Beast”. In the days that followed,
Rogers asked that he only be referred to as “The Beast” and had sent Kelly a text message
asking if she wanted to be sacrificed. The party was reportedly held in Cuddyside at the home of
postal worker Alex Stuart, aged 22, whom Rogers stabbed in a fit of rage, inflicting extensive
facial injuries. She was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary where she passed away a few hours later.
Rogers was arrested and admitted killing her but denied intended murder, claiming he wasn’t in the
right state of mind. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 16 years served.
Number 5 Demetrius Cox
In April of 2020, a man was arrested for gunning down a guest at a house party in Osceola County,
Florida. On the 14th, officers had responded to reports of shots fired at an address in Davenport
but couldn’t find any victims. Law enforcement was later notified that Wolph Lutherking Luma, aged
20, had been brought to Dr. Phillip’s Hospital in critical condition. A connection was made between
the two reports and the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office determined that Luma had been shot at the
party to which they’d initially responded. Luma later died from his injuries. Demetrius Cox,
also aged 20, was subsequently arrested for the murder and while the motive wasn’t disclosed
the shooting is believed to have been gang-related. Osceola County Sheriff Russ Gibson
warned that gang members were renting houses and hosting parties with numerous guests with the
express intention of spreading COVID-19 among them in an arguably misguided attempt at generating
herd immunity. The Sheriff’s Office had received hundreds of complaints from residents whom Gibson
stated were “living a life of terror”. Number 4 Nina Silver
On June the 23rd of 2019, as she was on the verge of starting a new life in New York City,
a San Diego woman was killed in a drive-by shooting while standing outside a house
party in La Jolla. 19-year-old Nina Silver and three others were struck with a volley of rounds
fired by the occupant of a light-colored sedan. An argument had sparked the shooting which occurred
at around 12:30 am. Silver later passed away and another guest suffered life-threatening
injuries to the upper body. Another victim was shot in the jaw while the fourth
was treated for a gunshot wound to the arm. Two months after the shooting, 18-year-old Odyssey
Sellers Carrillo was arrested as the suspected gunman, following a high-speed pursuit with
local authorities. Malik Joshua Campbell, then in his early 20s, was also charged for aiding
and abetting Carrillo. Their trials are ongoing. Silver hadn’t been the intended target in the
shooting and was considered a tragic collateral casualty of an ongoing street gang rivalry.
Number 3 Wyatt Tyler In March of 2017, a young man died in
East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, after falling four stories in a house party accident.
According to his social media, Wyatt Tyler, aged 21, was from New Orleans and going to NYU. He’d
been drinking at the party but it’s unclear how severely it affected the chain of events that
followed. The young man leaned against a window screen that couldn’t support his weight and thus
toppled out the window. As they first heard yelling and commotion,
neighbors wanted to berate the partygoers but soon realized the horrific accident that had
taken place. First responders found Tyler sprawled on the pavement unconscious and unresponsive. He
passed away a few hours later. His death wasn’t treated as suspicious and while some reported
that he wasn’t intoxicated, the NYPD suspected that alcohol had contributed to the fatal fall.
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the comments section below. Number 2 Bobby Tillman
In November of 2010, teenager Bobby Tillman was killed in a random act of violence
at a house party in Douglas County, Georgia. Initially meant to be a small gathering of
less than a dozen friends of a high school girl in the area, the party rapidly grew
to an unruly crowd of nearly one hundred, as word spread via text and email. At some point,
a brawl erupted in which a female partygoer struck 19-year-old Emanuel Boykins who,
in turn, refrained from hitting her back but vowed to beat up the next male who walked by, regardless
of who he was. 18-year-old Tillman, whom multiple sources stated hadn’t been involved in the
conflict in any sort of way, was savagely attacked as he approached Boykins and his companions. Four
teenagers punched, kicked and stomped on him repeatedly while dozens of bystanders
watched but didn’t intervene. Paramedics arrived at the scene and attempted CPR but, unfortunately,
couldn’t revive Tillman. Speaking to the media about the senseless attack, Major Tommy Wheeler,
of the Douglas County Sheriff's Department, stated “They just decided he's the one.
And they killed him.” Aside from Boykins the other suspects were identified as 18-year-olds
Quantez Mallory and Horace Coleman along with Tracen Franklin, aged 19. There was a considerable
degree of community outrage in the aftermath sparked by the random and horrific nature of
Tillman’s killing. Boykins pleaded guilty under an agreement that enabled him to be granted parole
after 30 years served in prison while the other attackers were all sentenced to life without
the possibility of parole. Number 1 Fatal Stoning in Fort Worth
In July of 2021, a house party in Fort Worth, Texas, descended into chaos
resulting in a fatal shooting as well as a deadly instance of mob justice. The identities of those
involved weren’t disclosed by the authorities pending the completion of an investigation.
Of the information that was released, it was reported that the small gathering had taken place
in the neighborhood of Como, at the home of Ashley Jimenez Santos. At around 1 am, a man showed up
at the residence uninvited and started arguing with multiple partygoers. He pulled out a firearm
and shot at several people, including Jimenez Santos’ father, before fleeing. A group from
the house party chased the gunman down the street, at which point he turned around and fired at them.
A 32-year-old friend of the Jimenez Santos family was shot and killed. In response, the
partygoers started pelting the gunman with stone pavers, which they’d grabbed from a nearby pile.
The shooter collapsed under the barrage of stones and bricks, sustaining critical injuries to which
he succumbed at the scene. In a subsequent media interview, Jimenez Santos expressed frustration
that she’d been put on a hold during her 911 call, a consequence of Fort Worth emergency call centers
being severely understaffed. No charges have yet been leveled against her and others in the group
that fatally pelted the gunman but mob justice and vigilantism is punishable under the state’s law.
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