Six Teen Boys Played A Ding-Dong Ditch Prank. Minutes Later, Three Were Dead.

[Demovictory9]

Anurag Chandra, 42, was charged with murder after he “intentionally” rammed his car into a vehicle carrying six teenage boys, killing three of them, authorities said.


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On Sunday night, the six teens were having a sleepover when they dared one of the boys to “jump into a pool at night or ding-dong-ditch a house,” Campusano said.

The investigation by the California Highway Patrol confirmed that during their sleepover, one of the boys was dared to do a "doorbell ditch," the Riverside County District Attorney's Office said Thursday.

Being the oldest of the group, Campusano drove the group less than a mile to a nearby house.

Once there, one of the boys got out of the car, rang the doorbell, and ran back to the Prius, authorities said.

Chandra, the resident of the house, then allegedly got into his car and began chasing the teens’ car in his own vehicle, the DA’s office said.

“He got really close and I was like, What is this guy doing?” Campusano told NBC4. “And I felt like a nudge forward like he hit me from the back and I was like, There’s no way he just did that… like, this guy is insane.”

Campusano said that when the man rammed their car from the side, he thought, "If anything happens, I love these guys.”

“He just got next to me and I was confused. What is he going to do?” Campusano said. “I just saw him ram his car into my back. And I whipped into my window and I blacked out and then I remember I woke up on the floor. I don’t remember how I got there. I was shaking."
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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/california-murder-teens-crash-ding-dong-ditch-prank

[chowder66]

1. Whoa. I remember when we used to do that in our neighborhood.

The worst situation was an old lady who came out with a shotgun and shot it off in the air. I wasn't there but the whole neighborhood was talking about it.
Everyone stayed away from her house from that point on.

[Demovictory9]

2. shotgun blast is definite clue to skip that house

I was "ding donged" once. Had no idea what was going on. Everytime I went to the door, there was no one in sight. So I closed the door and went for a stroll and there was a young boy hiding around the building. It's surprising to read that this type of prank is done by car.

[chowder66]

3. lol. That's kind of cute.

This was in a nice middle class neighborhood in KCMO in the early/mid 70's.
No one shot off guns, most families didn't have them.
It was mostly a neighborhood of artists, teachers, young professionals, musicians and such. Still is.
She was the "Big Dare" because she was not a nice lady and seemed to really hate kids.

She sure showed us!

[chowder66]

4. I do need to say that this is a tragic situation.

We always did this in our immediate neighborhood because we all knew each other so the adults knew we were just playing around.
However, some of the kids strayed a little too far (two blocks) and that's why they got ran off with the shotgun.

[58Sunliner]

5. OMG how awful for the families and those poor boys.

The killer is nuts. We used to do that too, it was a rite of passage.