A black teenager was allegedly stunned with a taser on Halloween night by high school students donning Ku Klux Klan garb.

Attorney Matt Manning, who is representing the teen victim, detailed the attack in a news conference in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Wednesday.

The hateful Halloween attack involved high school students in Woodsboro, a small town about 30 miles north of Corpus Christi. The attack did not leave Manning’s client injured, despite being shocked by the taser.

Manning declined to identify those involved in the incident because they are juveniles. The teen victim’s identify was not released.

There are as many as six victims, all juveniles, Manning said. The other five victims were not shocked by the taser but may have been chased or otherwise terrorized.

‘For you to dress up as a Klansman, you have a specific intent of terrorizing,’ Manning said.

‘That’s not an accident. That’s not kids being kids. That’s not boys being boys. That’s not hazing or high school hijinks. High school hijinks are egging somebody’s house, not dressing up as a Klansman and tasing them.’

There were no immediate arrests or criminal charges, Assistant District Attorney Tim Poynter said. Woodsboro police, Refugio County deputies and the Texas Rangers continue to investigate the incident.

Manning didn’t specify the race of the assailants, but Jeremy Lane Coleman, Corpus Christi NAACP chapter president, said he was calling the assault a hate crime until evidence showed otherwise.

In a Facebook post, Woodsboro Superintendent Ronald Segers Jr stated the event did not occur at a school or school-sponsored activity, and for that reason, the district cannot punish the students involved.

Woodsboro Independent School District will continue cooperating with law enforcement during the investigation and ‘strictly enforce’ its anti-discrimination policy permitted by law and its student code of conduct, the statement read.

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