The former teammate talks about the students of Syracuse High School accused of novatadas incidents

Gage Talucci has been playing Lacrosse for the last four years. But Talucci, a third year student at Westhill High School in Syracuse, New York, said he finally decided to leave sport about two weeks ago to focus on “other things” such as school and his personal life.

A week after leaving the team, several players would be accused of committing an act that the district prosecutor called “steroid rookies.” On Wednesday, 11 students became the police after the Syracuse district prosecutor urged them to surrender within 48 hours or would be prosecuted as adults and accused of kidnapping.

The prosecution said that if the players surrendered before Friday, they would be fined at illegal imprisonment, but they would be handled through the family court system and would not fall under their criminal record.

“I think this was a mistake made by the good people I had met for many years,” Taucci told “Good Morning America” ​​Thursday about the students accused in the incident.

Onoondaga County District Prosecutor Bill Fitzpatrick said he decided to present charges against the 11 students, most are members of the Lacrosse team of the university team of children, who allegedly turned off the youngest students last month at gunpoint.

In the afternoon of April 24, students allegedly decided that “some kind of joke would nebular or play some of the youngest members of the Lacrosse team,” said Fitzpatrick during a press conference on Tuesday.

A victim told the officials that he was going to have a “pleasant night with the last year students, go to a Lacrosse game and end the night with something to eat at McDonald’s,” said Fitzpatrick.

But, on his way home when eating food, the driver of the car said he was lost and stopped in a remote part of the county, which is when “the accomplices jumped from the forest pretending to be kidnappers,” said Fitzpatrick.

These accomplices, who were other students, were dressed in black and armed with “at least one gun and at least one knife,” said Fitzpatrick.

The victim had a pillow cover placed on her head, she was tied and placed in the car’s trunk, according to the day.

The researchers say there were four other potential victims, but could flee from the area.

“I cannot really express the level of stupidity and the lack of judgment involved in this case really properly,” said Fitzpatrick.

Talucci, who has been in contact with the students accused of ride, said they are “extremely stressed”, with a teammate so worried that he cannot sleep at night.

The high school student, who knows the suspects since he was in high school, says they are “good people who made bad decisions.”

“I have known these boys for so long, this is not something I would have expected from any of them and any of Westhill for the case,” Taucci said. “This whole story does not reflect all athletes or students or anyone related to Westhill at all.”

After the news of the novatadas incident, the Superintendent of the Westhill schools, Steven Dunham, sent an email to the families saying that the school made the “difficult decision to cancel the rest of the season of Lacrosse University of Westhill High School”, despite the fact that most of those who are in the team did not participate in the alleged ride.

“Some may argue that all athletes should be punished for the actions of some. While I understand the perspective, we must address the culture of the program, and the most appropriate way to do so is with a restart,” said Dunham.

Taucci said that the school’s decision to end the Lacrosse season early was “unfair” for the other teammates who did not participate in the ride. In general, he said that he fears that the incident can put a negative perception in the community in general.

“My concern for all this is that it will change the stigma that has already been happening with Lacrosse, that these boys are seen as degenerated and that the whole community is simply not good,” Taucci said.

Rosemary Talucci, Gage Talucci’s mother, said she was “grateful” that her son did not participate in the alleged ride.

“The children who did this are good children. They come from good families. They simply made a big mistake and I think many schools can learn from that,” said Rosemary Talucci to “Gma.”

Syracuse’s resident, Kaeleight Collins, told ABC Affiliate WSYR She agrees with the decision of the District Prosecutor to prosecute these students for this incident.

“They are young children, and children are children, but that’s not right and I don’t think it’s very nebular for any reason. You are supposed to be a community,” Collins said.

A lawyer of one of the players, Tom Cerio, said that students “recognize that their actions were inappropriate and do not minimize the fear and anguish experienced by other students.”

“I have seen the video tape of what happened to this young man, it is not a rite of initiation, it is not a trivial issue,” said the district prosecutor this week. “It seems incomprehensible to me that today someone thought that they could have come out with his.”