Teen's Death Ruled Accident, Possibly Choking Game

The death of a local teenager has been ruled an accident. His mother believes he was playing the choking game and went too far.

Racine teenager and Horlick High School student R.J. Monroe's death has been officially ruled an accident by the Racine County Medical Examiner. Tom Terry told Patch Wednesday that the 15-year-old suffocated after he was strangled by a belt that secured him by the neck to his bed post. "Based on evidence the (Racine) Police Department recovered from the boy's computer and statements that indicate this may have happened before, we are ruling this death an accident," he said. It is believed the boy died as a result of playing a choking game, which is a way to experience a kind of high by depriving the body of oxygen to the point of fainting. While the game is certainly dangerous even with others to act as a safeguard, for Monroe, the game …

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