Police flood Orange Crush island hot spot, warn of teen takeovers as beach bash madness returns

Heightened information is coming to Tybee Island this play arsenic the arguable Orange Crush festival returns, bringing with it concerns implicit a caller surge successful unpermitted teen takeovers.

"Rest assured that we person heard you, and that nationalist information volition ever beryllium our apical priority," Tybee Island Police Department Captain Emory Randolph said successful a connection to Fox News Digital erstwhile asked astir residents concerns implicit the upcoming weekend's festivities.

"In caller months, stories of alleged 'teen takeovers' person popped up crossed the country," Tybee Island constabulary said successful a Facebook station Tuesday. "This improvement deed location conscionable implicit a week ago, erstwhile an unpermitted lawsuit connected the formation was interrupted by the dependable of gunfire. Now, arsenic we attack the instrumentality of Crush Reloaded, members of our section and online communities person expressed concerns."

The determination follows a surge successful nationwide "teen takeover" events—a inclination that deed location past week erstwhile gunfire disrupted an unpermitted formation gathering connected the island.

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The Tybee Island Police Department and Georgia State Police patrol Orange Crush. (Richard Burkhart/Savannah Morning News/USA TODAY NETWORK)

Tybee Island constabulary are coordinating with authorities and section agencies to brace for the upcoming "Crush Reloaded" weekend, they said.

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Residents, constabulary said, tin expect a dense instrumentality enforcement beingness starting Thursday from the Georgia State Patrol to section Sheriff’s offices, supported by K9 units and helicopters.

To support order, constabulary are besides launching a Road Safety Checkpoint connected Highway 80, carving retired exigency lanes connected main roads, and shuttering the 14th and 16th Street parking lots.

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The determination came arsenic the nationwide teen takeover events are spreading. Last week, a wide of teens participating successful a takeover successful Tybee Island, Georgia was interrupted successful panic aft constabulary accidental gunfire broke retired on the pier.

According to the Tybee Island Police Department, authorities responded astir 6:30 p.m. Saturday, April 4 erstwhile hundreds of radical gathered adjacent the Tybee Island Pier and Pavilion area, a fashionable spot successful the laid-back formation community.

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During the people of the "unpermitted, pop-up event," officers said they heard a azygous gunshot ringing out, and the assemblage began to scatter.

Video shared by the section captured hoards of teens moving away.

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Orange Crush attendees astatine past events person littered parts of Tybee Island's formation with trash successful the soil and successful the water. (Richard Burkhart/Savannah Morning News/USA TODAY NETWORK)

Visitors connected the land who were adjacent erstwhile it happened said the country turned chaotic.

"Out determination were similar 15 girls. Came retired yelling astatine america 2 past nighttime for nary reason," the visitors, who asked not to beryllium identified, told WTOC-TV.

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"We were here, but, like, it was like, drunk achromatic girls. Just a unreality of achromatic girls conscionable walking around."

Festival goers tally from the signifier aft idiosyncratic yelled that a weapon was seen connected Saturday, April 19, 2025 during Orange Crush connected Tybee Island. (Richard Burkhart/Savannah Morning News/USA TODAY NETWORK)

In the aboriginal 1990s, Orange Crush had a estimation for being a wild, crime-filled weekend, and Savannah State University disassociated with the lawsuit successful 1991 due to the fact that of the precocious fig of arrests and reports of violence.

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Three years ago, the lawsuit moved to Jacksonville, Florida, "due to deficiency of resources, constricted parking, civilian rights violations and governmental injustices," according to a June 2021 communicative connected Jacksonville.com, which cited the event's website. The website has since been taken down.

The lawsuit returned to Tybee Island successful 2023 for the archetypal clip since 2020.