Student Shocked With Stun Gun During Lincoln High Brawl in San Diego

By City News Service

A lunch-hour brawl at Lincoln High School today sent five students and a campus security officer to hospitals.

The fracas at the campus in the 4700 block of Imperial Avenue erupted for unknown reasons about noon. It took city and school police roughly 15 minutes to get the situation under control, said Linda Zintz, spokeswoman for San Diego Unified School District.

While halting the fight, officers used pepper spray on an undetermined number of students. Medics treated some of them at the scene for effects of the chemical irritant and took four others to a hospital, along with a teen who had been subdued by a campus officer’s electric stun gun. The youths were treated and released a short time later, Zintz said.

A school policeman was taken to a trauma center with head and leg injuries. He remained under medical care in the late afternoon, Zintz said.

The cause of the violence was under investigation.