Neither video captures the full ascent up the stairs, or everything that happened outside the building. The video posted on X shows more than a half-dozen men surrounding the alleged victim's car, which lurches forward as students retreat, then backs up and screeches away.

Police say six students at a Massachusetts college lured a man to campus on the promise of a hook-up. There, he was chased and beaten in a TikTok-inspired trend.

Six Assumption University students were in court to face charges in a connection made between a Holyoke woman and a man on Tinder, which resulted in a TikTok plot to confront a falsely accused sexual predator.

The group, as first reported by the Telegram & Gazette, is among six students, including one juvenile, accused of luring a man to campus Oct. 1 and siccing a mob of more than 20 students on him in a “To Catch a Predator”-inspired social media stunt gone awry.

WORCESTER — Five students at Assumption University were arraigned in Worcester District Court Thursday on charges of kidnapping a man they allegedly lured to campus through a dating app in a “To Catch a Predator”-type sting.

Five Massachusetts college students are due in court, accused of plotting to lure a man through a dating app into visiting campus as part of a TikTok trend.

WORCESTER ― A lawyer for one of five Assumption University students set to be arraigned Thursday in Central District Court for allegedly kidnapping a man as part of a TikTok trend gone awry said Wednesday that his client maintains her innocence and will seek a swift dismissal of the charges against her.

Six Assumption University students were in court to face charges in a connection made between a Holyoke woman and a man on Tinder, which resulted in a TikTok plot to confront a falsely accused sexual predator.

Five Massachusetts college students appeared in court Thursday, accused of plotting to lure a man to their campus through a dating app and then seizing him as part of a “Catch a