Three juvenile brawls in California result in stabbing and arrest.
Three separate brawls—one which left a person stabbed and another arrested—among under-aged crowds erupted in California Aug. 27, prompting heavy police responses near Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Riverside County’s Moreno Valley.
Torrance
Officers from the Torrance Police Department responded to calls at about 4 p.m. Sunday about a fight among a large group of juveniles at the Del Amo Mall located on the 3500 block of Carson Street in Torrance, according to CBS local news.
Police realized they needed help from neighboring stations “due to the size of the group” fighting “to contain and make the area safe again,” according to a Facebook post by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Deputies from the Carson station of the sheriff’s department responded to assist, as well as officers from Gardena, El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, and Los Angeles Police departments.
A witness reported gunfire during the brawl and an investigation is underway. No injuries, arrests, or damages to the mall have been reported, according to various news sources.
It is unclear how many people were involved in the incident.
Torrance police did not respond to a request for comment.
Emeryville
Meanwhile, in Northern California, multiple gunshots were heard, one person was stabbed, and another was reportedly arrested by Emeryville Police after “civil unrest” erupted at the Bay Street Mall in Emeryville, a city located between Berkeley and Oakland, also Sunday.
A worker from a local business called police at around 4:30 p.m. Sunday to alert them of a group of about 50 young adults at the mall, on the 5600 block of Bay Street, who were “causing a disturbance,” according to an Emeryville police statement.
The incident seemed to be over after police escorted the juveniles out, but at around 5:15 p.m. nearby patrol officers noticed a crowd of 100 young adults arriving at the mall, and an additional 100 to 150 more showed up over the next 30 minutes, authorities said.
Police said a first of a series of brawls broke out at about 5:40 p.m. in the courtyard of the mall, which prompted them to call for assistance from neighboring law enforcement agencies.
After receiving a report of a single gunshot fired about 10 minutes later, according to police, they were unable to identify any victims or suspects.
However, at approximately 7 p.m. authorities received a call of someone wounded from a stabbing near Elm Drive, around 15 miles north of the mall, where responding officers found a juvenile victim, police said.
Aid was rendered by emergency medical responders and the victim was transported to a local hospital with “non-life-threatening injuries,” according to police.
No other injuries were reported.
Emeryville city officials told a local NBC news outlet that one arrest was made in connection with the fights.
Anyone with information about the Emeryville fights is encouraged to contact Emeryville police at (510) 593-3700 or at [email protected].
Moreno Valley
Finally, three fights broke out at the Moreno Valley Mall, also on Sunday, after crowds of juveniles were attracted by $4 movie tickets—a common deal across the United States on Aug. 27 deemed “National Cinema Day”—at the shopping center’s movie theater.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department was called to quell the situation and mall officials said they are looking at solutions to managing unaccompanied minors, including requiring them to wear lanyards with their name and contact information for authorities to contact their parents or guardians if bad behavior occurs, mall spokesperson Chelsey Ritchie wrote in a post to
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