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A fight between cheer parents at the NCA All-Star National Championship led to a huge police response and 10 people being injured this past weekend. The brawl occurred on Saturday at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas.
According to ABC 13 News, at around 1 p.m. Dallas police reports parents began fighting knocking down multiple poles.
According to Dallas police, multiple people, thinking that the noise the poles made when they fell were gunshots, called 911, leading to a large police response, widespread panic among attendees causing “a stampede,” the evacuation of the building, and the competition for Saturday being canceled.
Breaking Video Shows Parents Scrumming At NCA Cheerleading Competition.
In Addition To Embarrassing Their Children, This Incident Touched Off A Stampede As People Said They Heard Gunshots And Thought An Active Shooter Incident Was Taking Place pic.twitter.com/Kac6FO4n8V
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However, one woman who says she was at the cheer event shared photos on X (Twitter) of what appear to be bullet holes, wrote, “@DallasPD @dallasnews tell me AGAIN how I ran for my life for no reason because there wasn’t a shooting in the arena at the NCA cheerleading championships in Dallas this weekend. Those are the doors I had to run out of!! Corruption at its finest! DO BETTER!!”
Fox 4 News reports that 10 people suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the evacuation of the building and were taken to four different hospitals in the area.
🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Chaos at NCA Cheerleading Event in Dallas
What first was being reported as an active shooter at a cheerleading competition turned out to be a large fight that broke out near the Omni Hotel adjacent to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, TX,… pic.twitter.com/70TpoBPKWa
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The cheerleading competition resumed on Sunday, but some of the cheer teams decided not to compete after the panic. One cheer mom from St. Louis complained about the lack of security at the event. “This isn’t just Dallas. These large convention centers don’t have security, no bag checks, so we’re hoping, unfortunately, we might have to use this as a lesson learned and just hope they up security,” she said.
So far, no arrests have been made, but, according to police, the incident is under investigation.