Dad Shares Story on Son's 'Choking Game' Death on WISN
Oak Creek's Craig Wittek talks about the auto-asphyxiation death of his 12-year-old son in September.
An Oak Creek father whose son died last year after playing the "Choking Game" was among the parents interviewed Monday night in a special report on the WISN 12 News. Craig Wittek shared the story of his son, Gage, a 12-year-old who died in September, with WISN's Christina Palladino. Craig found his son with a plastic bag over his head and a belt around his neck. Gage was in seventh grade at South Milwaukee Middle School at the time of his death. Channel 12, Patch's new media partners, talked to five families about their sons who died from “the choking game." The goal of the "game," popular among some young teenagers, is to achieve a quick high by temporarily cutting off the flow of oxygen to the brain. It's called auto-asphyxiation, and is…
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