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Huge fight broke out at Sky Zone in Fairview Heights, Illinois
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FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. – The Fairview Heights Police Department is still piecing together the events of Saturday night, when they were called around 10:30 for multiple fights at a Sky Zone trampoline park.
“We had several 911 calls that said numerous people were fighting at Sky Zone,” said Chief Steve Johnson for the Fairview Heights Police Department. “In fact, someone said it was 150 people fighting. In most cases, when you get calls like that, it turns out to be different of what you found out, and we don’t believe it was that many people that were fighting. But there were some fights that were going on. Because we know that once everyone comes out of the parking lot, there’s people over here and over there, and different fights start. We wanted to flood the parking lot with law enforcement and de-escalate the situation and let everybody know there’s not going to be any fights while we’re here.”
Authorities sent out an emergency broadcast Saturday over the ISPERN or Illinois State Police Emergency Response Network.
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Law enforcement from Belleville, Swansea, Collinsville, Illinois State Police, Shiloh, and O’Fallon responded immediately.
According to a social media post from Fairview Heights police, arriving officers had a hard time getting into the facility because so many juveniles were running out and shoving the officers.
Officers were told numerous fights had occurred in different places inside Sky Zone. Officers began separating the crowd and calming individuals using de-escalation techniques.
“Numerous departments sent multiple law enforcement officers to help us out,” Johnson said. “It’s not something you want to that often. But when you do, it’s good to know that you have help coming.”
Detectives are still reviewing phone footage taken Saturday night during the fight.
“We’re just not going to allow this to continue at this point,” Johnson said. “We’re going to do everything we can for it to stop. It needs to be a fun place for kids, not a fight club.”
Johnson said that he is going to meet with Sky Zone’s management to make sure that policies and procedures are put in place to make sure that this doesn’t happen again.
Fairview Heights police said this type of incident cannot and will not be tolerated and that strong legal action will be taken against anyone involved.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – Two people are behind bars after a man reportedly attacked a Jefferson County deputy with a screwdriver during an attempted arrest over the weekend.
Prosecutors have charged Nicholas Davis, 47, and Amanda Davis, 45, of Dittmer, Missouri, with felonies in the investigation.
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The alleged attack followed a traffic stop of a driver in the 9500 block of Jones Creek Road on July 7, though the driver was not Nicholas or Amanda.
According to court documents obtained by FOX 2, Nicholas reportedly came out of his nearby home, yelled at a deputy and started approaching him while holding a screwdriver. The deputy initially ordered Nicholas to back away, then used pepper spray.
Per court documents, the deputy attempted to arrest Nicholas, who then struck him in the chest with the screwdriver. Amanda reportedly approached the deputy and pulled him away from Nicholas before both ran inside their home.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says the situation prompted an hours-long standoff involving negotiators, a SWAT team and a K-9 deputy. The situation led to Nicholas refusing warnings and being bitten by a K-9.
Nicholas and Amanda are both jailed in the Jefferson County Jail without bond. Nicholas is charged with first-degree assault on a special victim and armed criminal action. Amanda is charged with resisting/interfering with arrest.
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ST. LOUIS — The new St. Louis schools superintendent will be officially sworn into office today. Dr. Keisha Scarlett took over the job in July after the retirement of Dr. Kelvin Adams. She was assistant superintendent in the Seattle Public School District. The installation ceremony is at 6:15 p.m. before the regular school board meeting.
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ST. LOUIS — A gasoline tanker truck crashed into a Metro transit center near Riverview and Hall Streets early Tuesday morning and knocked over a power pole. The pole is leaning on other power lines. Police have the area blocked off here because there is a downed power line. Ameren and Metro crews are also on the scene.
The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. It’s still unclear exactly what caused the crash, but we do that there was a second vehicle somehow involved. The airbags on that second vehicle did deploy.
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Police at the scene have not been able to give us a lot of details. Metro officials tell FOX 2 that the transit center here is operating this morning for passengers and buses. Access to certain areas will be limited here as clean up unfolds.
A Metro spokesperson says half of the station isn’t being used right now because of safety issues. It isn’t impacting overall bus operations, everything is just happening on the other side of transit center.
The extent of the damage to the actual transit center is still unclear, but I’m told it does not appear to be extreme. A Metro spokesperson tells me there were no injuries to any metro workers or passengers. The tanker driver also was not injured.
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