Orange Crush festival returns to Tybee Island as police brace for 50,000 partiers after teen takeover, gunfire

Tybee Island, Georgia, plans to invited backmost the arguable "Orange Crush" euphony festival this weekend, arsenic constabulary brace for thousands of revelers to flood the formation town.

"THE BIGGEST HBCU BEACH BASH IS BACK! Official Dates April 17TH -19TH Tybee Island," a station connected the Orange Crush Instagram leafage reads. "Concerts + Greeks + Parties + Car & Bike Show + Live Celebrities. Over 50k radical expected."

Known arsenic "Crush Reloaded" this year, the main lawsuit is scheduled for Saturday with a philharmonic festival astatine the Tybee Island formation pier and pavilion.

In 2025, Georgia constabulary made 22 arrests implicit the play arsenic Tybee Island welcomed partiers to Orange Crush, a arguable assemblage outpouring interruption bash that has antecedently brought unit and piles of trash to the quiescent abrogation town. There were 54 arrests during Orange Crush successful 2024 and 26 successful 2023.

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Spring breakers creation connected Saturday, April 19, 2025 during Orange Crush connected Tybee Island (Richard Burkhart/Savannah Morning News/USA TODAY NETWORK)

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The Tybee Island Police Department said successful a connection that for this year's festival they are heightening enforcement amid an uptick of teen takeovers plaguing the region.

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

The Tybee Island Police Department and Georgia State Police made 22 full arrests and 22 postulation citations implicit the weekend, (© Richard Burkhart/ Savannah Morning News / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

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"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."

Spring breakers enactment adjacent the Tybee Island Pier connected Saturday, April 20, 2024 during Orange Crush connected Tybee Island. (© Richard Burkhart/Savannah Morning News / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

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Beginning connected Thursday, the constabulary section said, residents and guests would spot an "abundance of instrumentality enforcement officers from assorted authorities and section agencies converging connected the island."

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

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"TIPD is committed to utilizing each disposable assets to assistance guarantee the information of our community," Capt. Randolph said. "Residents and guests tin bash their portion by being benignant to 1 another, obeying the law, and pursuing the instructions of each exigency personnel. Working together, we tin proceed to marque the land an adjacent safer spot to live, work, and play."

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The determination came arsenic nationwide teen takeover events are spreading. Last week, a wide of teens participating successful a takeover connected Tybee Island 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. connected 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.

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)

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.