Students at one South Side elementary school ended up staying longer than they expected when a fight broke out between two girls that resulted in a parent allegedly getting physically involved, according to Sgt. M. Dixon of the Chicago Police Department.
“What we have is a few students who decided to end the year with a bang and start fighting,” Dixon told the Defender. “And according to witnesses, one parent tried to break up the fight but allegedly got physical with one of the victims.”
According to police, it was shortly after 11 a.m. when Irvin Mollison Elementary School, 4415 S. King Drive, let out for the school year when a 12-year-old girl was attacked allegedly by a 14-year-old female student at Irvin at the corner of 4500 S. King Drive.
As the fight broke out, a Local School Council member, the Rev. Jeffery Campbell, was walking past and observed the fight and tried to intervene but was assaulted by several unknown students.
“All I know is that as I tried to break up the fight, someone hit me in the back of the head,” Campbell said. “And then I saw a parent step in and yank one of the girls by her hair.”
Campbell is pastor of Judah Israelite Christian Church, 4500 S. Prairie Ave. in Bronzeville.
The female parent involved declined to give her name but said she was just trying to protect her daughter who she said got jumped on because of her good grades.
In the interim while police were interviewing the parent, her Monte Carlo car, which she parked around the corner on Prairie, was vandalized and resulted in a broken front and back window.
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