LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – An after-school argument that ended with four students cut off from a minivan driven by a parent began over allegations of ongoing bullying, Las Vegas Metropolitan police officers wrote in an arrest report released Tuesday.
Jaquitta Madison, 36, is faced with a deadly weapon in four battery cases related to the incident on Friday.
Officials said they were called into an alley behind a store on Maryland Parkway near Silverado Ranch Boulevard for a report that a driver intentionally ran over children, the arrest report said.
A total of seven children were slightly injured in the incident, which began as an after-school brawl, police said. All victims had slight scratches or bruises, the police said.
An officer began looking for the affected car and found it unoccupied and parked across the street. The driver is said to be the parent of a schoolgirl, the police said.
A witness video shows a verbal argument between two women outside of a shop. Police said there were an estimated 20-30 students around them.
At one point, a witness said a woman who was later identified as Madison got into an argument with a student and the student beat the woman, police said. The woman then got into the driver’s seat of the van, accelerated back and forth several times before setting off, police said.
The video also showed a young person believed to be another student sitting in the passenger seat of the van, police said.
A witness later told police that Madison recovered a gun from the back of her car, but “hesitated” with the gun and put it back in her trunk, the report said.
At some point during the incident, people shouted, “Mom has a gun!” And “She has a gun!” said the report.
Police took Madison into custody at her home. In an interview, she told investigators that her son had been a victim of bullying for several months.
Madison told police she confronted the student and his mother in the alley after school. Another student became involved during the argument.
A total of four students were injured from the car, the police said, seven were injured in the incident.
A judge set Madison’s bail at $ 20,000. Records show that she was on bail on Tuesday, but her release was denied.
