Couple Arrested at Girls Softball Game After Violent Brawl Broke Out Over Excessive, Unsporting Cheering

A husband and wife are in custody after a brawl broke out at a youth women’s softball game stemming from excessive cheering.

According to court documents reviewed by Globe, Kiarious Hall and Jazmine Hall were taken into custody at a softball game on October 24 after police determined Kiarious was the primary aggressor in a fight between him and two other men that Jazmine jumped into.

When police arrived at the scene, they interviewed Kiarious, who said two men approached him and told him not to cheer for the opposing team right when the pitcher was about to throw. Kiarious said he continued to cheer for his daughter’s team while also continuing to argue with the two men. He said that, at one point, one of the men elbowed him in the chest, but things did not escalate there.

It’s only after the other man allegedly grabbed Kiarious and poked him in the chest that he said he punched the man in the face, sending him to the ground where he hit his head and fell unconscious. Kiarious said he began fighting the other man and they tumbled into the bushes before onlookers broke them up.

However, a witness showed video of the incident to responding officers, which painted a slightly different picture of events.

The video showed the three men arguing with Kiarious holding a metal water bottle. The angle did not show the man poking him, but it did show Kiarious swinging the water bottle and hitting him in the face, sending him to the ground and falling unconscious. The video then allegedly showed Kiarious swinging the bottle at the second man before they engaged in a fight. In the video, Jazmine tackled the man and they fell into the bushes, which is when the fight was broken up.

In the arrest affidavit, viewed by Globe, police noted that the witnesses “seemed to have a bias” toward the two men who confronted Kiarious and Jazmine, given they were supporters of their team. As a result, they could only go off the injuries presented and the video, which appeared to show Kiarious as the primary aggressor.

Both he and Jazmine were taken into custody. He is charged with two counts of assault causing bodily injury and she is charged with one count of the same thing.

The attorney for the man who was hit first with the water bottle suffered a broken jaw and three brain bleeds, his attorney told ABC13. The second man reportedly had to get seven stitches in his chin and suffered a broken hip in addition to several scrapes and bruises.