“I grabbed my brother, like, ‘Brother. Please talk to me. Talk to me. I'm here,’ ” the 5-year-old girl’s mother recalled of the fight’s aftermath
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- A 22-year-old man was left in an induced coma and two other men were arrested following a fight at a 5-year-old girl’s birthday party at a Chuck E. Cheese in Ohio, on Feb. 15
- The fight first broke out in the bathroom of the Chuck E. Cheese location in the Toledo suburb of Sylvania Township
- The brawl involved two groups of people arguing and fighting
A 22-year-old man was left in an induced coma and two other men were arrested following a fight at a 5-year-old girl’s birthday party at a Chuck E. Cheese in Ohio.
The fight first broke out in the bathroom of the children's arcade and entertainment facility in Sylvania Township, a suburb of Toledo, on Feb. 15 before the fighting moved into the lobby and then the parking lot outside, according to local news outlet WTVG.
Police body camera footage obtained by WTVG and WTOL showed two groups of people arguing and physically fighting near several parked vehicles. A police officer can be seen apparently trying to get the driver out of a vehicle before the car lurches forward and then reverses, hitting a pickup truck as people yell in the background.
WTVG reported that two men, identified as Derrick Jones and Keshawn Fell, were arrested in the aftermath of the incident.
PEOPLE reached out to Chuck E. Cheese and the Sylvania Township Police for comment on Saturday, Feb. 21, but did not receive immediate responses.
A 22-year-old man, whose name has not been made public but was identified as the 5-year-old's uncle, was hospitalized and placed in a medically induced coma after sustaining a broken eye socket, per WTVG.
Sylvania Township Police
The man’s sister, who chose to remain anonymous, told the outlet that her brother collapsed during the incident and that her child was "traumatized" following the fight.
“I grabbed my brother, like, ‘Brother. Please talk to me. Talk to me. I'm here,’ ” she recounted. "It was my baby's birthday. I was throwing this for her. Now my baby is traumatized."
The victim's aunt, who also chose to remain anonymous, also shared that she had scramble to protect children during the fight.
"All I could do is grab everybody's kids and try to get them up against the wall and try to get them away from it. It didn't happen been there at the front door. They literally were running through the whole entire building," she recounted. "And all I could do was think to protect the kids."
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Another family member shared their horror about the fight, telling the outlet that incidents like this should not happen around children.
"Like you knew when you went in the bathroom to fight, you knew that this was a kid’s establishment. You knew that. You knew it," the family member said.
WTVG reported that Jones was charged with felonious assault, and Fell faces a lesser charge of disorderly conduct for an incident that took place after the fight. They both pleaded not guilty and were released on bond.
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