A high schooler was killed after a resident allegedly fired shots at a group of teens as they recorded a ding-dong ditch prank for TikTok on May 3. Featured Video.

“Ding dong ditch,” although annoying if you’re on the receiving end, is a well-known prank where someone rings the doorbell and runs away before the homeowner could catch who did it.

According to a search warrant, the teens were making a TikTok video of a “ding-dong ditch” prank when the shooting happened, the Fredericksburg Free Press and WRC-TV reported.

Homeowner in Virginia accused of killing teen filming 'ding dong ditch' TikTok prank The teenager, a senior at Massaponax High School in Fredericksburg, died hours before his high school's prom.

Michael Bosworth Jr., an 18-year-old senior in Fredericksburg, Virginia, was shot and killed last weekend while filming a dong-dong-ditch prank video for TikTok with his friends.

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A Virginia man has been charged with second-degree murder after fatally shooting a teenager who was filming a prank for TikTok known as “ding dong ditch” with two friends around 3 a.m. on ...

The two teenagers told detectives that they were in the neighborhood to play a TikTok prank known as the “Ding Dong Ditch” challenge. The prank is when kids try to kick a stranger's front door ...