India, March 9 -- Jason Hughes, a 40-year-old maths teacher in Gainesville, Georgia, was killed in a freak accident following a prank by five teenage students at his home on Thursday.

On Thursday, around 11:40pm local time, a group of teenagers, reportedly led by 18-year-old Jayden Wallace, covered the yard outside the home of Hughes with toilet paper as part of a senior-junior war at the school. They had come to the Gainesville residence in a car.

Hughes stepped out of the home and ran towards the car as the teenagers were trying to flee. He tripped and fell and was run over by the car that Wallace was driving. They stopped and provided first aid to Jason Hughes till emergency responders arrived. But it was not enough, and Hughes passe...