Student arrested, 2nd student and 5 adults charged in Riverside high school fights, police say
Student arrested, 2nd student and 5 adults charged in Riverside high school fights, police say
One student has been arrested on a felony charge and five adults along with another student were charged with misdemeanors after two fights at Martin Luther King High School earlier week, Riverside police said Friday, May 23.
The student with the felony charged, who police say called his relatives after an altercation with the other student, was arrested and booked into juvenile detention on suspicion of felony battery of a school employee, said Officer Ryan Railsback, a spokesman for Riverside police.
The five adults, his relatives, went to the campus on Tuesday, May 20, and bypassed security protocols and have been charged with misdemeanor trespassing, Railsback said, with some of them also charged with battery.
The second student has been charged with misdemeanor battery tied to the first physical encounter on campus earlier that day.
The first encounter between the two male students was described as part of an “ongoing off-campus conflict” in an email to parents by Principal Leann Iacuone. It occurred at lunch.
During the second fight later that day, two campus supervisors who tried to intervene were assaulted and injured, and the second student was hurt as well, though no one was seriously injured, officials have said.
The adults fled, but police said they later identified them.
In response, the Riverside Unified School District increased security at the campus for the rest of the school year, district spokeswoman Elizabeth Pinney-Muglia said. She declined to say whether the two students will be suspended or expelled, citing privacy concerns.
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