Report: Brawl at Watkins Mill Football Game Ends in Critical Injury of Girl
A 10th-grade girl was reportedly hit by a police cruiser in the melee after the Watkins Mill-Clarksburg grudge match.
Update, 10 a.m., Sept. 22:
Janaya Richards, the Watkins Mill High School sophomore struck by a police cruiser Friday night, "remains in guarded but stable condition, and is alert and talking with doctors," Principal Scott Murphy wrote in a letter to the high school community Saturday morning.
Original story, Sept. 21:
An unidentified female student was in critical condition after being struck by a police cruiser that had responded to a series of fights that broke out after Friday night's Watkins Mill-Clarksburg football game, Fox 5 reported.
The bitter football rivals had just finished their annual grudge match -- a 10-8 win by Watkins Mill, according to witnesses -- when several brawls reportedly began. The girl was run into Apple Ridge Road when she was struck by the cruiser, according to Fox 5.
The girl is a sophomore at Watkins Mill, said Principal Scott Murphy.
"I would like to thank the police, fire/rescue, students, parents, staff, and community members for your swift and supportive response to this unfortunate accident," he said in a statement. "I know you join me in keeping this student and her family in your thoughts and prayers."
Bob Hydorn
12:13 am on Saturday, September 22, 2012
Please keep this young girl and the officer driving the cruiser in your prayers
bbb
6:41 am on Saturday, September 22, 2012
Heavenly Father we pray for this Young Girl and the Police Officer involved as he was only doing his Job...Now for those involved I pray they get the LAW thrown at them..
Natasha
8:20 am on Saturday, September 22, 2012
Im so sadden by this accident!!! My 15yr old son was at the game and called me to tell me what had happen, last night. My prayer's are with this young lady and her family, this could have been any of our children i pray for the officer as well i could just emagine how he or she must be feeling. I know that God is a good God and he has it all under his control her angle's are watching over her.
Gburgatheist
9:21 am on Saturday, September 22, 2012
Hey Natasha, if god was good, he wouldn't have let this happen.
Things happen all the time, good/bad, this happened to be bad. Now we need the professionals, the medical teams to work to the best of their ability to help her.
Remember 2 hands working accomplish more than a million hands praying.
David Becker
3:48 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012
So, Gburgatheist, why did you have to do that? Does it offend you that someone has feelings and thoughts different than you? Keep it to yourself. You took a sweet moment and muddied it with your blather.
Gburgatheist
4:47 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012
@David Becker, yup it was nice until "god is a good god". Oops, then it crossed the line into absurdity. Saying that a deity is good, when bad things happen is beyond ridiculous. How about just stopping with our prayers are with her?
And yes, we are hoping the experts, real people will use their skills to help her.
David Becker
1:13 pm on Sunday, September 23, 2012
Well, I guess you do have a right to be an ass. Our Constitution allows for it. Whether you should act like an ass is something your Mother should have dealt with long ago. I don't have the same beliefs as Natasha, but I do have the character to allow her the respect she deserves to say what she wants. You show your disregard for other peoples individual beliefs; which completely denigrates any standing you have in this discussion.
Frederick Yun
1:52 pm on Sunday, September 23, 2012
I agree with both Gburgatheist and David Becker.
God is believed to be a good god, but in many cases are proven to not be a good god.\
But still don't voice these opinions in public because humans can't tolerate OTHER people's opinions.
RVN6768
10:28 am on Monday, October 1, 2012
It is obvious Gburgatheist has never faced automatic weappons fire or been under a napalm strike...otherwise he may have a different opinion of faith in a supreme being.
Scott Murphy
9:57 am on Saturday, September 22, 2012
Here is an update from Watkins Mill on Saturday morning: http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/watkinsmillhs/news/news.aspx?id=262815
Esther French
9:59 am on Saturday, September 22, 2012
Thank you! We've included a link to your letter.
Courtney
5:18 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012
@David Becker, you can't reason with the Devil. One of the experts working on her was my church member. And she and everyone else there was praying too. In Jesus Name Amen.
jnrentz1
9:30 am on Sunday, September 23, 2012
Nicely said.
Frederick Yun
1:55 pm on Sunday, September 23, 2012
You can't reason with God either. Hmmph.
Natasha
11:16 am on Sunday, September 23, 2012
I know that thing's happen in this life in the supernatural but I put my faith in God!! I'm so happy to hear that the young lady is responding to the doctor's I spent my time in prayer for her!
Natasha
11:25 am on Sunday, September 23, 2012
@courtney I agree!!!
Jed Sorokin-Altmann
4:46 am on Monday, September 24, 2012
The headline is misleading. The brawl didn't end in critical injury of girl, the critical injury was from a collision with a police cruiser en route to respond to the brawl. Headline makes it sound like the injury occurred at the brawl itself.
Scott Murphy
10:53 am on Monday, September 24, 2012
Here is an update from Watkins Mill as of Monday morning. http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/watkinsmillhs/news/news.aspx?id=262959
Greg Cohen
10:59 am on Monday, September 24, 2012
Thanks for keeping everyone updated on the situation, Scott.
Derek Hale
5:23 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012
I am going to take this from an objective approach. The Urban Dictionary states that a "grudge match" is:
"A fight between unfriendly opponents; either a fight with an unfriendly opponent or a fight with an opponent who doesn't bare any unfriendliness whatsoever. "
So, then this was pre-defined as a "grudge match". The newspapers reported it prior to this event as a "grudge match".
So then this begs the question:
(1) Was there sufficient security from the school's side to make sure this type of event did not occur?
(2) Did the school hire any security or off-duty police officers to make sure this event was properly covered?
So I don't know the answers to either. This is the objective approach, not the religious approach.
Derek
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