2 Campus Supervisors, 1 Student Attacked At RivCo High School: Report

RIVERSIDE, CA — Family members are accused of assaulting three people after a fight between students at a Riverside County high school on Tuesday, authorities said.

The initial altercation took place between two male students during the school day at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside. According to The Press-Enterprise, two or three relatives of one of the students entered the campus without following visitor protocols and allegedly attacked a student and two school staff members.

After one of the students involved in the fight contacted his family, the relatives reportedly found the other student and initiated a second confrontation, Officer Ryan Railsback of the Riverside Police Department told the newspaper.

During the incident, two campus security staff members, who are not affiliated with the police department, attempted to intervene but were assaulted, Railsback said, adding that their injuries were minor.

By the time officers arrived at the school, the student and his family had fled the area. Meanwhile, the other student was taken to a hospital for treatment of injuries that were not major, the newspaper reported.

Jada Thompson, 24, who was picking up her younger brother that day, said she was shaken by the incident.

“It kind of freaked me out at first, but my brother texted me he was fine,” Thompson told the newspaper. “Most days, yeah, I think security’s tight. But if someone still got in, that’s a problem.”

A spokesperson for the school, Liz Pinney-Muglia, said the district will bolster security on campus for the rest of the school year.

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