Georgia police are investigating reports that Trent Lehrkamp, 19, was forced to guzzle vodka and take mushrooms by a group of teens before he lost consciousness and was allegedly tied to a chair, urinated on and spray-painted, according to online reports and officials.
The Glynn County Police Department said in a press release Sunday that on March 21, they responded to Southeast Georgia Health Center around 10:40 p.m. after receiving a report of an alleged hazing incident.
Three minors allegedly dropped off Lehrkamp at the hospital and registered their names with the ER, the release says.
Lehrkamp had spray paint on him and was being “treated for a high level of intoxication from a mixture of controlled substances and alcohol,” according to the release.
A Facebook post from an account calling itself Glynn County Citizens on Patrol shows a photo of four boys posing around a man who appears to be passed out with his head slumped to the side and covered in items and substances.
One of the boys is flashing both middle fingers. The post identifies the victim as Lehrkamp. A second photo shows a man, also identified as Lehrkamp, on a ventilator in a hospital.
“The Glynn Academy students on St. Simons Island are about to make national news,” says the caption above the photos. “These fine young men bound an unconscious and unresponsive boy to a chair, spray-painted him from head to toe, pissed on him, took a s— in his lap and the list goes on and on. Then dropped him off at the ER. Now he’s on a ventilator fighting for his life. This has all since been removed from SnapChat. Is this what our community has become?”
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School officials said some of the teens shown in the photo are current students at Glynn Academy High School in Brunswick, Georgia. Comments on Facebook indicate that Lehrkamp may be on the autism spectrum.
A 10-second video clip, also posted to Glynn County…
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