30 female students at a Pittsburgh area school will be charged with taking part in a massive brawl that started with a fight over one boy.
Police responded to multiple calls about a huge fight at University Prep School in Pittsburgh’s Hill District Monday morning.
The school was placed on lock down and parents were told not to come to the school to pick up their children. School officials sent the 30 girls home or to area hospitals for treatment of minor injuries. One teen suffered an asthma attack during the brawl.
The school provides preparatory education for inner city black students in grades 6 though 12 from the Pittsburgh Hill District.
The lockdown was lifted at 11 a.m. after the warring students were removed from the school.
One parent who was interviewed outside the school said the fight started in a hallway near her 17-year-old daughter’s classroom. Her daughter was not one of the combatants.
The woman said her daughter called her on her cell phone to report a big fight outside her classroom. She said one girl was “bleeding everywhere.”
I wonder if the boy knows 30 girls were fighting over him?
This parent says the fight started outside her 17-yr-old daughter's classroom. #WPXI pic.twitter.com/VYJgNoV8kN
— Aaron Martin (@WPXIAaronMartin) February 29, 2016
Parents waiting outside University Prep. Sources say the school is on lockdown after a major fight. #WPXI pic.twitter.com/jSiuBfYhYa
— Aaron Martin (@WPXIAaronMartin) February 29, 2016