that bringing attention to it will breed copycats. the press has named it so-called knock out game. we don t discount that that exists. it s a possibility. we ve investigated and we continue to investigate. reporter: whether the knock out game is real or not, penalty for these crimes can be stiff. in st. louis where the victim was killed, a 20-year-old suspect was sentenced to life in prison. pamela brown, cnn, new york. bebe connolly doesn t care what you call this crime. that s not what s important to her. it happened to her in northwest washington. a neighborhood called columbia heights. she was on her bike. she joins me tonight. phoebe, walk us through what happened to you. on friday, november 15th i was biking home biking up 11th street in columbia heights. and as i was making my way i noticed a group of teenagers
or perhaps because of a concern that bringing attention to it will breed copycats. the press has named it so-called knockout game. we don t discount that that exists. it s a possibility. we ve investigated and we continue to investigate. reporter: whether the knock out game is real or not, penalty for these crimes can be stiff. in st. louis where the victim was killed, a 20-year-old suspect was sentenced to life in prison. pamela brown, cnn, new york. phoebe connolly doesn t care what you call this crime. that s not what s important to her. it happened to her in northwest washington. a neighborhood called columbia heights. she was on her bike. she joins me tonight. phoebe, walk us through what happened to you. on friday, november 15th, i was biking home, and i was biking up 11th street in columbia heights.
or perhaps because of a concern that bringing attention to it will breed copycats. the press has named it so-called knock out game. we don t discount that that exists. it s a possibility. we ve investigated and we continue to investigate. reporter: whether the knock out game is real or not, penalty for these crimes can be stiff. in st. louis where the victim was killed, a 20-year-old suspect was sentenced to life in prison. pamela brown, cnn, new york. bebe connolly doesn t care what you call this crime. that s not what s important to her. it happened to her in northwest washington. a neighborhood called columbia heights. she was on her bike. she joins me tonight. phoebe, walk us through what happened to you. on friday, november 15th i was biking home biking up 11th street in columbia heights. and as i was making wmy way i
report the noise. i called all of those who complained and went to knock on their doors but no one would talk. they did however speak earlier to a local newspaper. bob willie lives here on 11th street and said this to the paper. why should someone not in the service have to wake up to revel lee. we are only asking them to drop the volume. we are not against anything. the base heard their complaints and did turn down the volume of the morning colors and now complaints are coming in of a different sort. residents who miss the morning patriotism. they are asleep at 8 in the morning? is come on. it really wasn t loud. it was just right. i can t believe people complained about it. you can hear it at the house you get used to hearing stuff. you live by a naval base. this mother says it was the reason she learned the spar spangled banner.
complaints saying the music was too loud. i headed out to the neighborhood in middletown to hear for myself. this is how they start every morning at the naval weapon station in middletown, new jersey. we honor the flag by raising it each morning where all military personnel stop, come to attention either salute or place a hand over their heart. they always play the national an dem at 8:00 a.m. on the emergency broadcast system. the loud speaker was fixed this last summer reigniting the old tradition of playing the morning colors through the speakers echoing loudly through the neighborhood. i don t think there s a problem with it noise wise. some people living less than half a mile from the base complained like pat who lives here on 11th street in bell ford. she called police three times to