MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Video obtained by WREG showed nearly a dozen high school girls showing up near another student’s house Monday.
One of the victims’ mothers said the group was there for a fight.
“They were yelling out, ‘We finna whip y’all. Y’all going to die.’ Things like that,” Yalondra Horton-Hampton said.
Horton-Hampton and her sister were scared for their children’s safety.
“These children are getting out here with knives, guns, everything, anything,” Horton-Hampton said. “And one bad move and you’re dead.”
The concerned mother said the incident all started at Melrose High School last year with a nasty fight WREG first reported in May.
Horton-Hampton’s daughter and niece got into a brawl after months of taunts and threatening posts on Facebook.
“I just think it’s kind of sad, I guess it’s all over some boy,” Horton-Hampton told WREG.
The girls all got suspended for the fight, but Horton-Hampton said the student started the new school year with old problems.
New posts from Facebook are too explicit to show but revealed just how serious and deadly the threats could become.
“I swear to God on my momma grave *expletive* you dead when I see you,” Horton-Hampton read from Facebook.
The concerned mothers filed a police report and an official statement with the school hoping someone would step in to help.
“Have a meeting with the parents — whatever they need to do. Take the children out of the same classes if they’re in classes with these children,” Horton-Hampton begged.
The parents of the two students wanted the school district to do all it could before another fight breaks out.
The Shelby County School District spokesperson was unable to provide an official comment by the time the story aired but said the following in an email: “We are checking into it — I still don’t have any info on it but will be sure to share once I do.”
