As large groups of young people gathered in Roseville Thursday night, fights broke out and three people sustained non-life threatening injuries, police said.
Roseville police called in five other agencies to assist during the incident, which included 100 to 200 people at a fast food restaurant, fights and a glass door broken.
It began at Roseville Area High School, which the school said was hosting a student-sponsored cultural event. It drew a large crowd of non-Roseville Area High School youth and young adults, Principal Jen Wilson wrote in a Friday message to district staff and families.
At the event’s conclusion, “the large crowd gathered in the parking lot and refused to leave school grounds,” Wilson wrote. “RAHS leadership in partnership with the RAHS school resource officer and Roseville Police Department ordered the crowd to leave school grounds. Upon leaving school property, it’s reported that some of the attendees moved to businesses near HarMar Mall and Rosedale Center — resulting in ongoing disturbances that required police intervention.”
When police were at the school, “a number of fights broke out” and officers dispersed the group, said Roseville Deputy Police Chief Joe Adams.
Then, police were called to Chick-fil-A on Snelling Avenue near County Road B West. A large number of people were fighting in the lobby, Adams said.
A person sustained an injury to their arm from a sharp edge, believed to be a knife, Adams said. Two other people arrived at a hospital, also with wounds from sharp objects. Officers found knives at the scene.
It “was extremely chaotic,” Adams said.
Around the same time, police received another call reporting shots fired in the area of Raising Cane’s outside Roseville Center, but officers didn’t find anyone there or evidence of a shooting, Adams said.
No one was arrested or cited, and the investigation continues.
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