Stabbing at Heritage Festival

At about 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 22, officers responded to the scene where a fight broke out between five teenagers in the Childrens Village area of Riverside Park during the Heritage Festival.
As the officers arrived, approximately 150 teens all began running southbound toward Michigan Avenue causing a panic among visitors and vendors. One officer reported that “bystanders were screaming and vendors were hiding under their tables and closing their booths down prior to closing time.”
Many teens were trampled after an unidentified female yelled, “He has a gun.”
Moments later a second unidentified female was witnessed stabbing an unidentified male in the back with an object. The condition of the victim is unknown.

(There will be more to come on this story later this week and in next week's Ypsilanti Courier.)