Shootings, Stabbings and Stampeding at Halloween Parties

In the early hours of Thursday morning, a man attending a Halloween party in Miami, Florida, stabbed four other men, critically wounding three of them. One victim went into cardiac arrest at the crime scene, but rescue workers were able to revive him.

A few hours earlier, three people were shot in a crowd of Halloween revelers in Hollywood, California. Aerial footage showed at least three men being taken into custody after the attack.

Meanwhile, officials in Los Angeles said four people were shot and wounded during a Halloween party on the campus of the University of Southern California campus.

In Madrid, Spain, three women aged 18 to 25 were crushed to death in a stampede at a Halloween party around 4 a.m. on Thursday. Another female partygoer was critically injured in the mayhem.

Days earlier, at an early Halloween party on the morning of October 27, two men, 20 and 21 years old, were shot and killed in a rented cabin just outside of Clarksville, Tennessee.

The Halloween holiday wears the disguise of frivolity and games, but its origins are dark and perverse. All Saints’ Day and its eve—All Hallows Eve, or Halloween—actually embodies the worship of Samhain—or Satan.

True Christianity stands for the exact opposite of death and darkness—it stands for light and life (John 1:4-5). No matter how much of a joke we try to make it out to be, Halloween is Satan worship. The tragedy that befell so many Halloween revelers this year reveals the dangers surrounding the holiday.

To understand the grim details of Halloween’s true origins, read “Halloween: Worshiping the Lord of the Dead.”