INDIANAPOLIS — Three women are facing charges of battery and disorderly conduct after court documents say they came into an Indianapolis high school and attacked a student.
According to witnesses, the attack on April 10 grew into a larger fight in a hallway of Crispus Attucks High School.
All of it was captured on video that 13News reviewed. It showed at least six people involved in a fight which lasted several seconds.
Witnesses told investigators it all started when a male student let his mother – later identified as Latasha Montgomery – and two other adult women – later identified as Tashija Whatley and Kayla Thomspon – into Crispus Attucks High School, through a door, after someone first buzzed the women into a secure foyer area.
From there, the witnesses say, the male student opened a second door off that secure area, letting the women inside the school.
According to witnesses, the women ran up to a female 10th grade student and started punching her.
"When he opened the door, he was like, 'C'mon. C'mon," said 15-year-old Nymi Coe, who said she watched it happen.
What came next, Nymi said, came fast.
"They came rushing in," Nymi remembered, explaining how the three women rushed towards her.
Nymi said one of them threw something in her face that turned out to be hand sanitizer, which she said made her turn her head and close her eyes for a second.
"Then, they all started swinging, so I turned around and I started swinging back," Nymi recalled. "It was three of them. It was only one of me."
According to court documents, the fight got bigger when two other female students jumped in, telling investigators later they were trying to help Nymi , who is their friend.
"Nobody was breaking it up," said Latoria Porter, who was one of Nymi's friends who got involved.
"I ran over there because they're grown ladies fighting a 15-year-old," Latoria added, but when she got there, she said one of the women attacked her.
"She scratched me, and that's how we started fighting," Latoria explained.
She wasn't the only one.
According to court documents, another of Nymi's friends jumped in the fight, too.
"What do you want us to do? Just sit there and just watch?" Latoria asked.
"It makes me mad because they're adults fighting kids," said Latoria's mom, Victoria, who added she's still angry about how easily she believes the women got into the school.
"They could have had a weapon. They could have had anything, a knife, a gun," Victoria said.
Court documents show staff broke up the fight before police arrived.
"They came into the school where she's supposed to be safe," said Nymi's mom, Nikki, who after watching the video, said she's convinced her daughter was anything but safe that day.
"To come and want to get physical with a kid and you're a whole adult and you don't know how to handle a situation and make your child accountable for what he did, that doesn't make sense to me," Nikki said.
Nymi said it all could have been prevented.
According to Nymi, the day before the fight, she and the boy who she said let the women into the school had exchanged words after Nymi said she joked with a different male student that he couldn't sit next to her in class because her bags were in the chair.
That's when Nymi said the first student got involved.
"He was like, 'I would have took this B-word's stuff all out of her chair and threw it on the ground,'" Nymi recalled.
"I was like, 'You would have got beat up for a second time,'" Nymi said she told him, explaining that she was referring to an incident earlier in the year where she claims the male student had been beaten up by another student.
Nymi said a day after that exchange in a classroom, she ran into the same male student in the hall at school where he threatened to kill her in front of a staff member.
She said that's not all.
"He took his phone, and he pointed it just like this and was like, 'They coming to get you, and they here,'" Nymi said the male student told her.
Nymi said she reported the threats to staff and even filled out a report, both before and after the fight.
Now, she's facing possible expulsion.
Her mother said her daughter was just defending herself.
"I feel like they failed to protect my daughter. I feel like more could have been done," Nikki said.
Prosecutors have charged Montgomery, Whatley and Thompson with three counts of battery and one count of disorderly conduct. All three women have warrants out for their arrests.
13News reached out to an IPS spokesperson twice for comment on the alleged incident. As of this story, the district had not provided a statement.