A youth football coach had to reportedly fire
several gunshots in the air to break up a fight during a game in Toledo, a city
in Ohio, on Thursday evening. 

Police responded to Northpointe Academy
Elementary in the 3600 block of Victory around 7 pm on Thursday after receiving
several reports about gunshots being fired during the game. Upon arrival, the
officers found around 150 people running around and fleeing to their vehicles.

Witnesses told the officers that a fight broke
out between two youth football teams and one of the coaches had to fire
gunshots into the air in order to break up the fight.

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In a statement on Friday, police said that the
game was between teams called the Lions and the Steelers. It was being
played on the grounds of a closed charter school in the Scott Park neighborhood
of southwest Toledo. The match had to be cancelled after the game
“apparently became heated and a fight broke out.”

No one was injured in the incident, police said,
adding that they could not find any evidence. 

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Last week, a parent was taken into custody after
he pulled a handgun during a fight at a youth football game in Forest Park,
Ohio. Daniyan Ward, 34, was at the Winton Woods Intermediate School’s
football game when he got into a fight with another parent. During the physical
altercation, the accused pulled out a handgun from his waistband and
“displayed it in a threatening manner.”

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Parents and kids fled the area immediately fled
the scene. Ward too fled in his car but was stopped two blocks away by police,
who searched his car and found a loaded handgun. He was taken into custody from
the scene and charged with multiple offenses inducing panic, improperly
handling firearms in a motor vehicle and having weapons while under disability.