14 DAY TRIAL // Spilled punch at a Cleveland kindergarten has led to a brawl which prompted police assistance, resulting in the arrest of eight people.
According to WKYC, the children's parents were detained for aggravated rioting. The melee was prompted by a confrontation between two teenagers during the kindergarten's graduation ceremony.
The police was called in at Michael R. White School on East 92nd Street, with initial reports suggesting that a shooting took place at the scene. Pre-K, kindergarten, elementary and middle school students study at the institution.
Police reports show that no shots were fired during the brawl and nobody at the scene was injured. However, a hammer and a pipe were confiscated, while they were not used to injure anyone.
As rumors about a shooting spread, students hid in closets and underneath desks and phoned their parents.
"I called my mom on my cell phone she said she would come get me but police were not letting anyone in the building they had to call the students one by one to come down," recalls one student for 19 Action News.
Gawker wrote that the teenage girls started arguing about a spilled cup of punch, and their parents stepped in and engaged in a violent quarrel.
The fight started inside the school and continued in the parking lot. Six parents and two juveniles were arrested.
Officials carried on with the graduation ceremony as scheduled, as students recovered from the shocking experience.
"She's nervous, still trembling a little bit. I gave her some chocolate milk," the mother of kindergarten student Michelle Guiden describes.
"I love my babies. If something happened to them I don't know what I would do," says Ms. Burrell, the mother of three kids who were trapped inside the school.