Skateboard, Scissors Used In Violent CA Middle School Brawl: Cops

LAKE BALBOA, CA — At least one middle school student was hospitalized in a bloody brawl that began at Mulholland Middle School and spilled out onto Vanowen Street Thursday. One student, a 12 to 13-year-old boy, was beaten with a skateboard and two others sustained stab wounds from a pair of scissors.

The violent altercation began after school and unfolded in front of dozens of classmates in Lake Balboa. Video from the scene, aired by CBS, shows one boy on the ground as several others begin punching and kicking him. The fight occurred about 3 p.m. in the 17100 block of Vanowen Street near Balboa Boulevard, said Officer Tony Im of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Numerous kids were involved in the fight, and several have been detained by police. According to witnesses and video from the scene, one youth was armed with scissors, which he used to try to ward off a group of other boys, who circled around him. They knocked him to the ground where he was beaten with a skateboard, witnesses. He was taken to a hospital in unknown condition, according to Im and LAPD Sgt. Rudy Perez.

Later, a boy entered a hospital claiming stab wounds and said he used the skateboard to beat the other boy, who stabbed him with a sharp object, Perez said.

Multiple people of interest are in custody, Perez said.

The Los Angeles School Police Department is handling the case.

Further information was not immediately available about what caused the fight.

City News Service contributed to this report.