Six students arrested after brawl at Lincoln High School
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Six students arrested after brawl at Lincoln High School
Police hauled away seven students after a melee erupted at Abraham Lincoln High School in Mayfair Tuesday afternoon, officials said.
Three fights erupted in the hall of the school, on Ryan Avenue near Rowland, around 1:15 p.m., according to school district spokesman Fernando Gallard. Officials locked down the 1,800-student school for about 45 minutes as cops rushed in to calm the chaos.
"It was just everybody fighting in the hallway," said Damaso Delorbe, 17, a senior. "Everybody was just running around the hallways, there were fights here and there."
Delorbe and other students said the brawl started when two male students got into a fistfight after one allegedly hit the other's younger sister, also a student at the school. Gallard could not confirm this account and said the cause of the brawl remained under investigation around 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Cops said they placed six students -- five boys and one girl -- under arrest for their involvement in the fight. Gallard said seven students total had been taken into custody, but one had likely been released. There was no word on charges as of 7 o'clock Tuesday night.
No students were badly injured, and some said similar fights have happened before at the high school.
"There [are] a lot of fights here, but it's not that violent," senior Nalina Velez, 18, said. "Lots of kids are immature. People have issues."
Shortly after 3 p.m., under the watchful eyes of a handful of city and school cops, the students were dismissed from school without further incident. Gallard said any students involved in the fight would face disciplinary action of at least a suspension.
The usual suspects...— Rick James- taser the hell out of them... Thugs!!!— UGHROLF
- Don't worry about the teacher bullying a student over a T-shirt. Worry about students behaving like caged beasts in a zoo. Well, actually not. I've never seen caged beasts in a zoo create a disturbance large enough to call the police.— DonQ
- Mayfair just can't stay out of the news today. For all the wrong reasons of course. It's a shame what has happened to this once nice neighborhood.— BobbyD
- Probably happens at Lower Merion HS all the time, but they hush it up so it doesn't affect property values.— deadjackrabbit
- This is your tax dollars at work. You pay to provide a place for these kids to brawl. Education? Forget it they are only here to sling dope and be a tough guy. No Child Left Behind? Please- don't make me laugh.— bling
- someone must have fed the animals— Howard Stern
- i really wish people wouldn't talk bad about lincoln, i am a student of abraham lincoln high school & not every student there is like this. It's just that some kids get into confrontation & things happen, so unless you goto lincoln you have no say :}
p.s. it's not half as bad as the old building!— marsaronii - Well i have to say that i agree that not all students that go to Lincoln are bad,trouble makers or drug involved.My son goes there and he is a senior thank god with no discipline record and a bright future. he wants to learn unlike many others there.But i will say that i 100% disagree with your remark "so unless you goto lincoln you have no say". Actually I do and anyone in the surrounding neighborhood has a say. We own property and we pay taxes...taxes to help run a school that although is beautiful inside (surprisingly)is getting filled up everyday with trash. As an adult,I have gotten into confrontations also but you don't see me throwing fists all over. — lizsworld
- It used to be that "lockdowns" happened only at prisons, now it's come to this. Speaks volumes of the direction our society, schools are headed.— dogman5
- just keep busing them in— Zero
- You know nothing about those involved. Just another chance to vent your prejudice. — tom-104
- Zero...I agree.
Tom-104. It's not prejudice, it's the truth. Have you ever stood at Cottman & the Blvd and watched the kids get off the bus and WALK to Lincoln? yes, ummmmm they obviously don't live around Lincoln therefore have no right to attend there. They should go to the school near there own home. How is Zero being prejudice? He didn't point to any one particular race,creed,color,etc. You just assumed.— lizsworld - What is 85?— The Usual Suspects
- sounds like a job for joe clark— franknbeans
