PEORIA, Ill. – Peoria Police have now arested almost a dozen people in connection with a fight earlier that caused panic and evacuations at a Peoria High School football game late last month.
Police say they’ve arrested the first adult in the case — Marcus Neely, 18. He’s charged, like the ten others already arrested, with Mob Action. Neely remains jailed in Peoria County pending a bond hearing.
Neely and ten others so far allegedly got into a fight at the game, causing Peoria Public School Resource officers to try and break it up, in part, by hitting their batons on the new metal bleachers at Peoria Stadium.
That caused some to think they heard gun shots, and fled.
No shots were ever fired. Metamora decided to forfeit the game rather than continue.
The investigation continues.
