Fight at Waterford High School Results in 15 Arrests

Carloads of Stonington High School students showed up at Waterford High School at approximately 3:52 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, and a fight allegedly broke out, police said.

“The reporting party said that the Stonington High School students were trying to fight students from Waterford High School,” police said. “A WHS staff member told the SHS students to leave and they did.”

Eight minutes later, another staff member called police and said approximately 20 students were fighting at the Miner Lane entrance to the school, Waterford Police said.

The students dispersed and a vehicle was stopped a short time later. Arrests were expected, police said.

On Tuesday, March 1, police arrested 15 people associated with the incident. Only one of the people arrested was not a high school student.

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With the exception of three people, the students arrested are minors and therefore not named. According to The Day, the students were arrested for:

• Assault in the second degree (One Stonington student)

• Assault in the second degree and inciting to riot (One Stonington student)

• Breach of peace (Six Stonington students; four Waterford students)

• Inciting to riot, breach of peace (Two Waterford students)

• Mystic resident Stephon Hodge, 18, was arrested on a breach of peace charge. He is not a student.

• Waterford resident and WHS student Victor Lopez, 18, and 19-year-old Tymar Jaynes, also of Waterford and a student, were arrested on breach of peace charges.

Click here to read the full report from The Day, including school officials’ responses to the incident.