TUCSON, Ariz. — An Arizona father and a student were arrested this week after a massive brawl erupted at a Tucson school, authorities said.
According to the Arizona Republic and KOLD-TV, Willie Smith, 40, faces a charge of disrupting an educational institution, while a 15-year-old boy has been charged with disorderly conduct–fighting in connection with the incident, which occurred Tuesday at Tucson High School. The teen has not been identified publicly because of his age.
Tucson police said school officials asked Smith to take his sons home Tuesday following an incident involving a group of students the day before, according to the news outlets. Although officials told Smith and his sons to leave the campus via a back exit to avoid a possible confrontation, they refused and exited through the school courtyard, court documents said.
“If it’s going down, it’s going down here,” Smith told school officials at the time, according to police.
Police said that while the trio was in the courtyard, a verbal dispute broke out between Smith’s sons and other students, sparking a fight involving about 30 people, KOLD reported. During the brawl, Smith and another student punched each other, court documents said. Smith later grabbed the student’s neck and pinned him, police said.
Police said nobody was hurt in the incident, which did not involve weapons, according to the news outlet.
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