A South Carolina boy accidentally killed himself on Aug. 31 while playing the “Choking Game,” according to local reports.
Garrett Pope, Jr. was found dead in his bedroom after the playing the game, where one intentionally cuts off their oxygen supply to the brain in order to obtain a sense of euphoria.
According to the Pope family, the 11-year-old must have learned about the game from his peers in school and from the neighborhood, given that their tablets and computers yielded no search history about the game.
