A KHOU 11 viewer captured on cell phone video a fist fight Wednesday morning between a Lamar High School student and two adult utility workers two blocks off campus.
"I happen to look up in my rear view mirror and I see them grab these kids," the witness named Jamie said. "And as I was turning around I can see fists flying. These adults were literally fighting with these kids."
The teens were walking from campus to a nearby fast food restaurant near Audley and Branard. Jamie's video shows an older man in a blue short-sleeve shirt with a company logo squaring off to box with the teenage boy. Jamie says another worker, dressed in a reflective vest and a white hardhat, had also been involved in the fight before the witness started recording video.
"In my view, I didn't feel like he was defending himself because he obviously kept swinging instead of walking away and calling the cops," Jamie said. "That's what bothered me the most."
In the video the men suggest they'd stopped to intervene after they saw the teenage boy hitting the female classmate he was walking with.
"We saw it. We all saw it," one of the utility workers can be heard saying on the video when asked if the boy had hit the girl in the head.
But another student in the video suggests the teens were just horsing around and were not actually fighting when the adults intervened.
"It seemed like the two kids were fighting, play-fighting, and the guys might have thought that they were breaking up a fight here and in reality it wasn't. They were just play fighting or horse playing and that's when the altercation started," the witness said.
The men's uniforms suggest they work for a local utility company, although the company logos are not completely clear. We reached out to that particular company for comment, but have not yet received a response.
Meanwhile the witness believes his cell phone helped end the fight. The men ended up walking way, but the teenage boy was still threatening to get in one more punch.
KHOU 11 News also contacted HISD to see if a student had reported the altercation. As of Thursday no one had filed a report of complaint with school officials.
