Officer uses stun gun to break up school fight

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - A fight at an Indianapolis middle school that drew a crowd of about 100 kids ended in police using stun guns on three teen boys who were fighting.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said one of its officers, an IPS liaison, was on detail at John Marshall Community High School when he heard noise coming from the auditorium and rushed to investigate along with an IPS Police officer. They found a crowd of students yelling and jumping over seats to get closer to a fight, according to police reports, and two students were attacking another student.

An assistant principal was able to separate the fighting teens – one of them 14, and the other two 13 - and the IPS officer escorted them out of the auditorium while the school official tried to calm the rest of the students.

Once outside the auditorium, however, the three students again started fighting, police reports said. The school official tried to intervene but ended up knocked to the floor, wrestling with the students, police reports said. When the students disregarded the IMPD officer’s orders to stop fighting, he used his department-issued stun gun on all three of them, and had to stun two of them twice, according to police reports.

The three were checked out by medics on the scene, and were later taken to Wishard Memorial Hospital and were preliminarily charged with disorderly conduct and resisting law enforcement, IMPD said.