Orlando Sentinel

Three students

- By Jeff Weiner

of Oak Ridge High School are arrested after a fight off campus turns into a “riot” that drew 80 to 100 students, according to an arrest report.

Three students of Oak Ridge High School were arrested after a fight at a nearby gas station erupted into a “riot” that drew 80 to 100 students, an arrest report said.

The fight was at the Chevron gas station on Oak Ridge Road, across Winegard Road from the high school, about 7 a.m. Wednesday.

It ended, witnesses said, with one student bashing another student’s head repeatedly into a metal lift on a Pepsi truck in the parking lot — leaving him bloodied and unconsciou­s, according to the report.

The victim was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center, the report said.

The 16-year-old accused of beating him was arrested on an aggravated battery charge. The report said surveillan­ce video showed he knocked the victim out with an elbow, then bashed his head against the lift about six times and punched him twice in the face.

Two other students, ages 16 and 18, were arrested on charges of disrupting a school function. Both were seen fighting, records show.

A school deputy described arriving as the fight broke up to find a distraught witness crying and screaming: “He was bashing his head against the truck and no one stopped to help,” she said. “He was trying to kill him.”

The deputy found the victim, who had been pulled into the gas station by its manager, bleeding on the floor. Before being taken to the hospital, the boy said he could not move his arms, the deputy reported. The victim’s father told deputies he wants to press charges, records show. A spokeswoma­n for the Sheriff ’s Office said the boy has since released from the hospital.

Administra­tors said the victim and one of the arrested teens had left the school cafeteria before the fight and gone to the the gas station, joined by a flock of students. The cause of the fight was unclear.

As the deputy and school officials dealt with the incident at the gas station, another fight broke out on campus, the arrest report said.

The fights caused the delay of the start of Florida Standards Assessment­s exams at the school, the arrest report said. The school resource deputy called the incident a “major school disruption,” which he described in his report as “a riot both off and on campus.”

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